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Childhood cancers and systems medicine.
Frontiers in bioscience (Landmark edition) - 1 Mar 2017
Stone William L, Klopfenstein Kathryn J, Hajianpour M J, Popescu Marcela I, Cook Cathleen M, Krishnan Koymangalath
Abstract excerpt
Despite major advances in treatment, pediatric cancers in the 5-16 age group remain the most common cause of disease death, and one out of eight children with cancer will not survive. Among children that do survive, some 60% suffer from late effects such as cancer recurrence and increased risk of obesity. This paper will provide a broad overview of pediatric oncology in the context of systems medicine. Systems...
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