Childhood Cancer in Pakistan
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Childhood cancer in Pakistan, with special reference to retinoblastoma.
International differences in rates and types of cancer serve as clues to its etiology. To study such variations of childhood cancer, we compared the frequencies of malignancy in the 220 children, age 014 years, diagnosed at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center (JPMC), Karachi, Pakistan, 1974 1978, to the 1, 938 pediatric cancers in the U.S. Third National Cancer Survey (TNCS), 1969-1971.
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عنوان ژورنال: Iranian Journal of Public Health
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2251-6093,2251-6085
DOI: 10.18502/ijph.v49i8.3908