RT Book, Section
A1 Keating, Amy K.
A1 Knight-Perry, Jessica
A1 Maloney, Kelly
A1 Levy, Jean M. Mulcahy
A1 Greffe, Brian S.
A1 Franklin, Anna R. K
A1 Garrington, Timothy Prince
A2 Hay Jr., William W.
A2 Levin, Myron J.
A2 Abzug, Mark J.
A2 Bunik, Maya
SR Print(0)
ID 1172110886
T1 Neoplastic Disease
T2 Current Diagnosis & Treatment: Pediatrics, 25e
YR 2020
FD 2020
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781260457827
LK accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1172110886
RD 2024/09/11
AB Each  year  approximately  150  out  of  every  1  million  children  younger  than  20  years  are  diagnosed  with  cancer.  For  children  between  the  ages  of  1  and  20  years,  cancer  is  the  fourth  leading  cause  of  death,  behind  unintentional  injuries,  homicides,  and  suicides.  However,  combined-modality  therapy,  including  surgery,  chemotherapy,  and  radiation  therapy,  has  improved  survival  dramatically,  such  that  the  overall  5-year  survival  rate  of  pediatric  malignancies  is  now  greater  than  75%.  It  is  estimated  that  currently  1  in  570  adults  will  be  a  survivor  of  childhood  cancer.