European Journal of Cancer
Volume 45, Issue 6 , Pages 992-1005 , April 2009

Survival of European children and young adults with cancer diagnosed 1995–2002

  • Gemma Gatta

      Affiliations

    • Department of Preventive and Predictive Medicine, Evaluative Epidemiology Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori, Via Venezian 1, 20133 Milano, Italy
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author: Tel.: +39 02 23903518/23902900; fax: +39 02 23903522.
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  • Giulia Zigon

      Affiliations

    • Department of Preventive and Predictive Medicine, Evaluative Epidemiology Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori, Via Venezian 1, 20133 Milano, Italy
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  • Riccardo Capocaccia

      Affiliations

    • National Cancer Centre for Epidemiology, Health Surveillance and Promotion, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
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  • Jan Willem Coebergh

      Affiliations

    • Department of Public Health, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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  • Emmanuel Desandes

      Affiliations

    • French National Registry of Childhood Solid Tumours, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France
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  • Peter Kaatsch

      Affiliations

    • German Childhood Cancer Registry, Institute of Medical Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics, University of Mainz, Germany
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  • Guido Pastore

      Affiliations

    • Childhood Cancer Registry of Piedmont, CPO Piemonte, Torino, Italy
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  • Rafael Peris-Bonet

      Affiliations

    • Registro Nacional de Tumores Infantiles (RNTI-SEHOP), Universitat de Valencia, CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Spain
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  • Charles A. Stiller

      Affiliations

    • Childhood Cancer Research Group, Department of Paediatrics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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  • the EUROCARE Working Group

Received 4 June 2008 ,Revised 25 September 2008 ,Accepted 4 November 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.ejca.2008.11.042

European Journal of Cancer
Volume 45, Issue 6 , Pages 992-1005 , April 2009

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