Article
[Epidemiology of childhood cancers].
La Revue du praticien - 31 May 2007
Clavel Jacqueline
Abstract excerpt
In industrial countries, 1 child out of 500 develops a cancer before the age of 15 years, and before the age of 6 years for almost half of them. In France, incidence rates were stable over the 15 last years with around 1500 cases each year. A very small fraction of cases is attributable to known risk factors, including heritable cancers or cancers in children with heritable predisposing diseases, cancers induced...
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