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Perry’s The Chemotherapy Source Book, 5e
Perry’s The Chemotherapy Source Book, 5e
Principles and Practice of Palliative Care and Supportive Oncology, 4e
Principles and Practice of Palliative Care and Supportive Oncology, 4e
Principles and Practice of Palliative Care and Supportive Oncology, 4e
Principles and Practice of Palliative Care and Supportive Oncology, 4e
Principles of Molecular Diagnostics and Personalized Cancer Medicine
Principles of Molecular Diagnostics and Personalized Cancer Medicine
Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology
Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology
Chapter 108. Thyroid Tumors >
Children with Thyroid Carcinoma
Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology
Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology
Chapter 122. Molecular Biology of Childhood Cancers >
Hereditary Syndromes Associated with Tumors of Childhood
Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology
Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology
Chapter 122. Molecular Biology of Childhood Cancers >
Predictive Testing for Germ Line Mutations and Childhood Cancers
Several important issues have arisen as a result of the identification of germ line mutations of tumor suppressor genes in cancer-prone individuals and families. These include ethical questions of predictive ...
Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology
Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology
Chapter 122. Molecular Biology of Childhood Cancers >
Molecular Therapeutics
With the identification of alterations in a variety of molecular signaling pathways, including activated growth factor signaling pathways (e.g., IGF-2) and altered tumor suppressor pathways (e.g., retinoblastoma), it has become ...
Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology
Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology
Chapter 123. Solid Tumors of Childhood >
The Importance of Multidisciplinary Management Teams in Pediatric Solid Tumors
The management of childhood malignant solid tumors is complex and requires an integrated multidisciplinary approach that often involves various treatment modalities such as surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy. Surgery plays a ...
Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology
Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology
Chapter 165. Gonadal Dysfunction >
Effects of Cytotoxic Agents on Children
Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology
Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology
Chapter 167. Second Primary Cancers >
Pediatric Malignancies
Survival rates for children with cancer have increased substantially over the past 3 decades, with this rapidly growing population at lifelong risk for the late effects of cancer treatment. In ...
Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology
Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology
Chapter 172. Sexual Problems >
Cancer in Children and Young Adults
Childhood cancers and their treatments can also have an impact on the sexual development and function of adolescents and young adults. Zebrack et al.127 found that although most survivors report ...
Pediatric Radiation Oncology
Pediatric Radiation Oncology
Chapter 1. The Cancer Problem in Children >
The Cancer Problem in Children: Introduction
In 1900, cancer trailed typhoid fever, malaria, smallpox, measles, scarlet fever, whooping cough, diphtheria, croup, influenza, dysentery, erysipelas, tuberculosis, sexually transmitted disease, meningitis, acute bronchitis, pneumonia, accidents, birth injuries, and ...
Pediatric Radiation Oncology
Pediatric Radiation Oncology
Chapter 1. The Cancer Problem in Children >
Relative Frequency of the Various Types of Childhood Cancer
The relative frequency of the various types of childhood cancer is influenced by whether we are examining incidence or mortality and by how we stratify by age, sex, or nation. ...
Pediatric Radiation Oncology
Pediatric Radiation Oncology
Chapter 1. The Cancer Problem in Children >
Trends in Childhood Cancer Mortality Rates
The mortality rate from childhood cancer has fallen dramatically in the United States. Particularly impressive gains have been posted for acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL), bone tumors (predominantly osteosarcoma and Ewing ...
Pediatric Radiation Oncology
Pediatric Radiation Oncology
Chapter 1. The Cancer Problem in Children >
Is The Incidence of Childhood Cancer Increasing?
Some data suggest that the overall incidence of childhood cancer is rising in the United States. Experts disagree about what might account for this alleged increase. Some have asserted that ...
Perez and Brady’s Principles and Practice of Radiation Oncology
Perez and Brady’s Principles and Practice of Radiation Oncology
Chapter 17. Intraoperative Radiotherapy >
Pediatric Tumors
IORT in pediatric patients represents a means of improving precision in dose deposition, protection of normal uninvolved tissues and, moreover, radiation treatment design in which the EBRT can be either ...
Perez and Brady’s Principles and Practice of Radiation Oncology
Perez and Brady’s Principles and Practice of Radiation Oncology
Chapter 18. Particle Beam Radiotherapy >
Pediatric Malignancies
Investigators at PSI looked at the potential influence of improved dose distribution with proton beams compared to conventional or IMRT x-ray beams on the incidence of treatment-induced secondary cancers in ...
Perez and Brady’s Principles and Practice of Radiation Oncology
Perez and Brady’s Principles and Practice of Radiation Oncology
Chapter 22. Clinical Aspects and Applications of High–Dose-Rate Brachytherapy >
Pediatric Tumors
LDR brachytherapy has been used in children to reduce the deleterious effects of EBRT (37,40,49). However, LDR brachytherapy is difficult to perform in young children and infants because they require ...
Perez and Brady’s Principles and Practice of Radiation Oncology
Perez and Brady’s Principles and Practice of Radiation Oncology
Chapter 31. Malignant Neoplasms Associated with the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome >
Pediatric Malignancies
Where available, the use of antiretroviral drugs in HIV-infected pregnant women and their infants has resulted in a dramatic decline in perinatally acquired HIV infection (43). However, maternal-infant transmission remains ...
Perez and Brady’s Principles and Practice of Radiation Oncology
Perez and Brady’s Principles and Practice of Radiation Oncology
Chapter 34. Spinal Canal >
Late Effects in Children
Children diagnosed and treated for primary tumors of the spinal canal present special prognostic concerns and apprehensions because of the increased potential for treatment-induced morbidity. The spinal cord in children ...
Diseases of the Breast
Diseases of the Breast
Chapter 92. Breast Cancer in Younger Women >
Breast Cancer in Childhood Cancer Survivors
Young women with a history of treatment for childhood cancer, in particular those treated with chest (“mantle”) irradiation for Hodgkin's Disease, are at dramatically increased risk of early onset breast ...
Principles and Practice of Surgical Oncology
Principles and Practice of Surgical Oncology
Chapter 11. Minimally Invasive Surgery for Cancer >
Pediatric Malignancy
Minimally invasive techniques have been used in many areas of pediatric surgery, and its utility extends to the diagnosis and treatment of malignancy. Most pediatric solid tumors are treated with ...
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Chapter 1. Epidemiology of Childhood Cancer >
Surveillance and Descriptive Studies
Public health surveillance involves the systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of outcome-specific health data and the timely dissemination of the findings to prevent and control disease or injury. Surveillance systems ...
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Chapter 1. Epidemiology of Childhood Cancer >
Childhood Cancer Statistics
Childhood cancer is relatively uncommon, with approximately 1 to 2 children in every 10,000 children aged 14 years and younger diagnosed in the United States each year.7 Despite the rarity ...
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Chapter 1. Epidemiology of Childhood Cancer >
Overall Cancer Frequency and Incidence by Type of Cancer for Children and Adolescents
Figure 1.2 compares the distribution by percentages of the cancers that occurred among 0- to 14-year-olds and 15- to 19-year-olds for the years 1973 to 2006, whereas Table 1.1 provides ...
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Chapter 1. Epidemiology of Childhood Cancer >
Survival and Mortality Rates for Children with Cancer
Survival rates for children 0 to 14 years of age have improved dramatically since the 1960s when the overall 5-year survival rate after a cancer diagnosis was estimated as 28%.9 ...
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Chapter 1. Epidemiology of Childhood Cancer >
Analytic Study Designs
Some epidemiologic studies, such as randomized intervention trials and randomized controlled clinical trials, follow the principles of scientific experimentation in which a treatment or intervention of interest and the control ...
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Chapter 1. Epidemiology of Childhood Cancer >
Molecular Epidemiology
Classical or traditional epidemiology, as discussed previously, permits epidemiologists to evaluate risks and causal roles of environmental factors in cancer. Molecular epidemiology, a hybrid of epidemiology and molecular biology, enables ...
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Chapter 1. Epidemiology of Childhood Cancer >
Risk Factors for Childhood Cancer Occurrence
Environmental risk factors for adult cancer generally involve long latency periods from exposure commencement to clinical onset of disease. Cigarette smoking illustrates this point: Smoking usually starts during adolescence, but ...
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Chapter 1. Epidemiology of Childhood Cancer >
Summary and Future Considerations
Although knowledge about childhood cancer continues to increase, there is much work to be accomplished before reliable preventative measures can be recommended. In this brief overview, we have discussed the ...
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Chapter 1. Epidemiology of Childhood Cancer >
Variation in Childhood Cancer Incidence by Gender
Table 1.1 shows the incidence of cancer by gender for children (<15 years) and adolescents (15 to 19 years). For both 0- to 14-year-olds and 15- to 19-year-olds, a male ...
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Chapter 1. Epidemiology of Childhood Cancer >
Variation in Childhood Cancer Incidence by Race and Ethnicity
For many adult cancers, black Americans have higher incidence rates than do white Americans. However, for children and adolescents, the incidence of cancer among white children was approximately 40% higher ...
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Chapter 1. Epidemiology of Childhood Cancer >
Cluster Investigations
It is common for clinicians to encounter parental concern about multiple cancer occurrences in their child’s community. The implication, of course, is that a shared environmental exposure is responsible for ...
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Chapter 2. Childhood Cancer and Heredity >
Issues in Genetic Testing for the Pediatric Oncology Patient
Several studies have suggested that 4% to 10% of childhood cancers result from inherited genetic mutations, making it essential for pediatricians and pediatric oncologists to recognize clinical criteria suggestive of ...
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Chapter 3. Molecular and Genetic Basis of Childhood Cancer >
Oncogenic Consequences of Gross Chromosomal Rearrangements—General Themes
The cancers of childhood are largely the products of somatically acquired genetic abnormalities that modify protein function. The classes of proteins affected by these changes include growth factors and their ...
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Chapter 6. Clinical Assessment and Differential Diagnosis of the Child with Suspected Cancer >
Children at Risk
Certain children are at increased risk for developing cancer. They include children with the genetic predispositions to cancer that are discussed in Chapter 2, such as Down syndrome, neurofibromatosis, and ...
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Chapter 6. Clinical Assessment and Differential Diagnosis of the Child with Suspected Cancer >
Time to Diagnosis
Various studies have evaluated factors that contribute to the lag time to diagnosis of cancer. A recent review grouped these delays into three categories: disease, patient/parent, and health care related.31 ...
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Chapter 6. Clinical Assessment and Differential Diagnosis of the Child with Suspected Cancer >
Differential Diagnosis
As previously noted, in almost all cases, diseases other than cancer may produce identical nonspecific symptoms at presentation. Although assessment for these findings does not always require an evaluation for ...
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Chapter 6. Clinical Assessment and Differential Diagnosis of the Child with Suspected Cancer >
Establishing The Diagnosis
With the exception of the rare true emergency, optimal treatment for a malignancy can begin only after the tumor has been accurately diagnosed and the extent of disease precisely defined. ...
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Chapter 6. Clinical Assessment and Differential Diagnosis of the Child with Suspected Cancer >
Peripheral Blood Abnormalities
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Chapter 8. Diagnostic Pathology of Pediatric Malignancies >
Childhood Tumor Diagnosis
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Chapter 8. Diagnostic Pathology of Pediatric Malignancies >
Molecular Genetic Evaluation of Childhood Cancer
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Chapter 8. Diagnostic Pathology of Pediatric Malignancies >
Unique Challenge of Childhood Cancer Diagnosis: Age, Ethnicity, and Genetic Factors
Epithelial origin cancers (carcinomas) are unusual in children but common in adults. In contrast, retinoblastoma is associated with young children and unknown in adults.14 It is important to remember that ...
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Chapter 8. Diagnostic Pathology of Pediatric Malignancies >
Current Approach to Childhood Tumor Diagnosis
Pathology has been transformed by new diagnostic technology, instruments, and knowledge gained from advances in immunology, molecular biology, genomics, and proteomics during the past few decades. This has changed the ...
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Chapter 8. Diagnostic Pathology of Pediatric Malignancies >
Age Versus Tumor Type
Many pediatric tumors are associated with specific age ranges (Fig. 8.2). Overall cancer incidence is highest just after birth and declines to its lowest point by 10 years of age. ...
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Chapter 8. Diagnostic Pathology of Pediatric Malignancies >
Genetic Factors
Genetic factors, such as inherited gene defects, are not uncommon in childhood tumors. The prototypic example is familial versus sporadic retinoblastoma.17 Children with familial tumors possess a constitutional mutation in ...
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Chapter 8. Diagnostic Pathology of Pediatric Malignancies >
The Cancer Genome
The functional human genome is composed of three major categories: DNA, RNA, and protein. Potential diagnostic methods based on each of these categories are illustrated in Figure 8.25 and are ...
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Chapter 9. Imaging Studies in the Diagnosis and Management of Pediatric Malignancies >
Diagnosis
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Chapter 9. Imaging Studies in the Diagnosis and Management of Pediatric Malignancies >
Tumor Staging and Risk Stratification
Assignment of patients by risk group into stratified prognostic categories is a fundamental feature of the therapeutic protocols of many pediatric malignancies. Treatment intensity can be adapted to minimize toxicity ...
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Chapter 9. Imaging Studies in the Diagnosis and Management of Pediatric Malignancies >
Therapeutic Planning
Delineation of the extent of a tumor and its anatomic relationships to vital structures is particularly important when surgery or radiation therapy is planned. Noninvasive imaging studies recommended for tumor ...
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Chapter 9. Imaging Studies in the Diagnosis and Management of Pediatric Malignancies >
Assessment of Therapeutic Response
With any cancer treatment regimen, there is an obvious desire to know whether the treatment is having the intended effect. Tumor response assessment can have different endpoints, depending on the ...
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Chapter 11. Molecularly Targeted Therapies and Biotherapeutics >
Identifying Childhood Cancer Therapeutic Targets
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Chapter 11. Molecularly Targeted Therapies and Biotherapeutics >
Clinical Trials for Molecularly Targeted Agents in Children
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Chapter 17. Cancer Clinical Trials: Design, Conduct, Analysis, and Reporting >
Trial Design
Cancer clinical trials are conventionally categorized into three types.2 A phase 1 trial investigates the adverse events associated with a particular agent or combination of agents and determines the maximum ...
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Chapter 18. Regulating Patient Safety in Cancer Treatment >
Background
Several studies have demonstrated that errors can occur in every medical setting; however, vulnerable populations and high-risk procedures add additional challenges. Most publications describe interventions in the emergency room or ...
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Chapter 42. Pain and Symptom Management >
Overview of Childhood Cancer
There are approximately 12,400 children diagnosed with cancer each year in the United States. As recently as the 1970s, a diagnosis of childhood cancer was considered uniformly fatal. Today, there ...
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Chapter 45. Psychiatric and Psychosocial Support for the Child and Family >
Family Considerations
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Chapter 45. Psychiatric and Psychosocial Support for the Child and Family >
Parental Expectations and Discipline
As treatment continues, fears related to the disease become less prominent, and other concurrent stresses are perceived as more troublesome.75 Parents often find themselves in a quandary in deciding how ...
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Chapter 45. Psychiatric and Psychosocial Support for the Child and Family >
Social Reintegration of the Child
Cancer disrupts the typical avenues of social activity and forces the young patient to temporarily relinquish usual roles for that of a patient in an unfamiliar system of doctors and ...
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Chapter 45. Psychiatric and Psychosocial Support for the Child and Family >
Siblings
The effects of childhood cancer on the healthy siblings within the family deserve special attention. While the effects of illness on families and individual family members is multifaceted and reciprocal,64,65,296 ...
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Chapter 45. Psychiatric and Psychosocial Support for the Child and Family >
Cultural Considerations
Our growing multicultural society presents health care providers with a difficult task of providing appropriate care for individuals who have diverse life experiences, beliefs, value systems, religions, languages, and notions ...
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Chapter 47. Late Effects of Childhood Cancer and its Treatment >
Standardized Recommendations for Follow-Up of Childhood Cancer
The Institute of Medicine has recognized the need for a systematic plan for lifelong surveillance that incorporates risks based on therapeutic exposures, genetic predisposition, health-related behaviors, and comorbid health conditions.8 ...
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Chapter 48. Educational Issues for Children with Cancer >
The Importance of School Re-Entry Intervention
School is the work of childhood. It presents each child with a daily opportunity to feel productive, master the environment, learn social skills, and receive peer support. As Maul-Mellott and ...
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Chapter 48. Educational Issues for Children with Cancer >
Phases of School Re-Entry
In previous editions of this chapter we used, as a framework for our discussion of school re-entry, a three-phase model first described by Madan-Swain and colleagues.28 Here we use a ...
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Chapter 53. Pediatric Oncology in Countries with Limited Resources >
Epidemiology
Although there are few, truly population-based cancer registries in developing countries, it is clear (especially from the work of the International Agency for Research on Cancer—IARC)5 that the reported annual ...
Human Radiation Injury
Human Radiation Injury
Chapter 15. Effect of Radiation on the Embryo and Fetus >
Carcinogenesis
The association between in utero exposure to radiation and development of leukemia and other childhood cancers has been recognized for over 30 years.10 Whether the carcinogenic effects for a given ...
Perry’s The Chemotherapy Source Book, 5e
Perry’s The Chemotherapy Source Book, 5e
Chapter 24. Second Malignancies after Chemotherapy >
Childhood Cancer
Between 1975 and 2002, mortality from childhood cancer has declined by 45.5% with improvements in therapy. Various cohort studies have provided data regarding the health of long-term survivors, including the ...
Principles and Practice of Palliative Care and Supportive Oncology, 4e
Principles and Practice of Palliative Care and Supportive Oncology, 4e
Chapter 65. Long-Term Survivorship: Late Effects >
Common Physiologic and Psychosocial Sequelae of Childhood Cancer
Tables 65.1 and 65.2 display some of the more common late effects associated with radiation and chemotherapy and further details are provided in the section below. Table. 65.3 lists the ...
Principles and Practice of Palliative Care and Supportive Oncology, 4e
Principles and Practice of Palliative Care and Supportive Oncology, 4e
Chapter 65. Long-Term Survivorship: Late Effects >
Risk-Based Health Care and Models of Care for Childhood Cancer Survivors
The risk and severity of some, albeit not all, adverse outcomes for which childhood cancer survivors are at risk changes throughout their lifespan (144). Table. 65.4 shows the components of ...
Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology
Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology
Chapter 123. Solid Tumors of Childhood > Solid Tumors of Childhood: Introduction
Approximately 12,400 children and adolescents younger than 20 years are ...
Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology
Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology
Chapter 165. Gonadal Dysfunction > Characteristics of Gonadal Toxicity
Childhood cancer survivors who retain ovarian function after treatment have ...
Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology
Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology
Chapter 169. Cancer Survivorship > Promotion of Adjustment and Healthy Lifestyles
Survivors of childhood cancer often lack a distinct teachable moment ...
Pediatric Radiation Oncology
Pediatric Radiation Oncology
Chapter 1. The Cancer Problem in Children > Relative Frequency of the Various Types of Childhood Cancer
Childhood cancer death rates for the United States are shown ...
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Chapter 1. Epidemiology of Childhood Cancer > Overall Cancer Frequency and Incidence by Type of Cancer for Children and Adolescents
The distribution of cancer diagnoses for 15- to 19-year-olds is ...
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Chapter 6. Clinical Assessment and Differential Diagnosis of the Child with Suspected Cancer > Introduction
Cancer, a common disease in adults, is rare in children ...
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology
Chapter 49. Palliative Care for the Child with Cancer > Integrating Palliative Care
Approximately 20% of children diagnosed with cancer eventually die of ...
Human Radiation Injury
Human Radiation Injury
Chapter 9. Optimization of Radiotherapy Treatment Delivery Technology to Minimize Radiation Injury > Reducing Radiation Injuries to Defined “Organs at Risk” Receiving High-To-Intermediate Doses
Because of the long life expectancy post treatment and the ...
Human Radiation Injury
Human Radiation Injury
Chapter 25. Vascular Effect of Radiation in the Central Nervous System > Cerebrovascular Disease in Children
The RR of stroke in survivors of all childhood cancers ...
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