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NEPHROBLASTOMA: INDEX CANCER OF CHILDHOOD
Author(s) -
Innis M. D.
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1973.tb128179.x
Subject(s) - incidence (geometry) , childhood cancer , cancer , ethnic group , medicine , demography , cancer incidence , pediatrics , oncology , physics , sociology , anthropology , optics
The incidence of malignant kidney tumours in children to the age of 14 years was compared in all those registries recording their results in both Volumes 1 and 2 of “Cancer Incidence in Five Continents”. It was found that the incidence of these tumours did not vary significantly between registries. This finding was expected on the assumption that most childhood cancers are hereditary genetic disorders in Hardy‐Weinberg equilibrium, 1 and that nephroblastomas, being embryonic tumours and hence arising before the action of specifically racial genes, are uninfluenced by the ethnic genome.