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Ewing sarcoma-family tumors that arise after treatment of primary childhood cancer.
Cancer - 1 Jul 2006
Spunt Sheri L, Rodriguez-Galindo Carlos, Fuller Christine E, Harper JoAnn, Krasin Matthew J, Billups Catherine A, Khoury Joseph D
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BACKGROUND: Unlike osteosarcoma, the Ewing sarcoma family of tumors (ESFT) has rarely been reported as secondary malignant neoplasms after treatment of childhood cancer. ESFT arising as a second cancer was reviewed and characterized at our childhood cancer center. METHODS: A retrospective review was undertaken of 11,183 patients age <21 years who were treated for a primary cancer between March 1962 and December...
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