Open AccessChildhood cancer: A growing problem.
Author(s) -
Claudia Schmidt
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
environmental health perspectives
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257
H-Index - 282
eISSN - 1552-9924
pISSN - 0091-6765
DOI - 10.1289/ehp.98106a18
Subject(s) - childhood cancer , epidemiology , cancer , disease , environmental health , medicine , cause of death , demography , gerontology , pathology , sociology
Childhood cancer is the leading cause of disease-related death among children in the United States,and rates are increasing by approximately 1% each year. Unfortunately,the science of epidemiology has not provided definitive answers to the question of why cancer strikes children.
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