Childhood cancer survival rates in two South African units

Childhood cancer survival rates in two South African units.

INTRODUCTION Childhood cancer is relatively rare, but there is a very good chance of cure. While overall survival rates of >70% are reported from developed countries, survival is much less likely in developing countries and unknown in many countries in Africa. OBJECTIVE To analyse survival rates of childhood cancers in two South African paediatric oncology units. METHODS This retrospective ...

Survival rates of childhood cancer patients in Osaka, Japan.

BACKGROUND Survival of childhood cancer patients is often described in specialized hospitals and/or institutions, but not in the general population. METHODS The trends and patterns of childhood cancer survival during 20 years were investigated using the Osaka Cancer Registry's data. The study subjects were 3443 reported cases diagnosed as having the first primary cancer between 1975 and 1994 ...

Interpreting cancer survival rates.

Towards a Part-of-Speech Ontology: Encoding Morphemic Units of Two South African Bantu Languages

This article describes the design of an electronic knowledge base, namely a morpho-syntactic database structured as an ontology of linguistic categories, containing linguistic units of two related languages of the South African Bantu group: Northern Sotho and Zulu. These languages differ significantly in their surface orthographies, but are very similar on the lexical and sub-lexical levels. It...

Tonsillectomy rates in the South African private healthcare sector.

BACKGROUND Adeno-/tonsillectomy is a commonly performed procedure with internationally standardised and recognised indications. Despite this, there exists considerable international (190 - 850/100 000 people ≤19 years of age) and regional variation in rates. This cannot be accounted for by differences in clinical need or regional morbidity. OBJECTIVES To describe the adeno-/tonsillectomy rate...