Pediatric malignancies, treatment outcomes and abandonment of pediatric cancer treatment in Zambia.
<h4>Background</h4>There exist significant challenges to the receipt of comprehensive oncologic treatment for children diagnosed with cancer in sub-Saharan Africa. To better define those challenges, we investigated treatment outcomes and risk factors for treatment abandonment in a cohort...
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| Main Authors: | Jeremy S Slone, Catherine Chunda-Liyoka, Marta Perez, Nora Mutalima, Robert Newton, Chifumbe Chintu, Chipepo Kankasa, James Chipeta, Douglas C Heimburger, Sten H Vermund, Debra L Friedman |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2014-01-01
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| Series: | PLoS ONE |
| Online Access: | https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0089102&type=printable |
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