Open AccessChildhood cancers in a referral hospital in northern Nigeria
Author(s) -
Abdullahi Mohammed,
Halima Aliyu
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
indian journal of medical and paediatric oncology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.229
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 0975-2129
pISSN - 0971-5851
DOI - 10.4103/0971-5851.64253
Subject(s) - medicine , rhabdomyosarcoma , lymphoma , retinoblastoma , cancer registry , cancer , pediatrics , referral , disease , neuroblastoma , sarcoma , pathology , family medicine , biochemistry , chemistry , genetics , biology , gene , cell culture
We undertook this study to determine the relative frequencies of childhood malignancies and their age - sex distribution in this environment.