Childhood Cancer Mortality in India: Direct Estimates From a Nationally Representative Survey of Childhood Deaths
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Childhood Cancer Mortality in India: Direct Estimates From a Nationally Representative Survey of Childhood Deaths
PURPOSE Although most children with cancer live in low- and middle-income countries, measurements of childhood cancer burden in such countries have been restricted to incidence rates from a few subnational cancer registries and mortality rates from vital statistics. We aimed to provide alternative burden estimates by using nationally representative longitudinal survey-derived mortality rates. ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Global Oncology
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2378-9506
DOI: 10.1200/jgo.2015.000935