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dc.date.accessioned2018
dc.date.available2018
dc.date.issued2014
dc.identifier.isbn978-92-75-11846-7
dc.identifier.urihttps://iris.paho.org/handle/10665.2/34850
dc.description.abstract[Introduction]. In many countries, cancer is the second leading cause of death in children over 1 year of age, exceeded only by accidents. Annual incidence of all malignant tumors is 12.45 per 100,000 children under 15 years. Fortunately, great progress has been made in the treatment of childhood cancer in recent years, to the extent that in the last twenty years, there have been few specialties that can claim therapeutic outcomes comparable to those of pediatric oncology. One example is acute leukemia, a disease that 30 years ago was considered inevitably fatal, with occasional, yet unsustainable, temporary remissions. At present, acute lymphoblastic leukemia, the most frequent childhood cancer, has a five-year survival exceeding 70%, meaning that most patients can be cured...en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherPAHOen_US
dc.subjectEarly Detection of Canceren_US
dc.subjectPublic Healthen_US
dc.subjectNeoplasmsen_US
dc.subjectIntegrated Management of Childhood Illnessen_US
dc.titleEarly Diagnosis of Childhood Canceren_US
dc.typePublicationsen_US
dc.rights.holderPan American Health Organizationen_US
dc.contributor.corporatenamePan American Health Organizationen_US
paho.isfeatured0en_US
paho.publisher.countryUnited Statesen_US
paho.publisher.cityWashington, D.C.en_US
paho.source.centercodeUS1.1en_US
paho.subjectCat 2. Noncommunicable Diseases and Risk Factorsen_US


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