Childhood Cancer in Britain : Incidence, survival, mortality

ISBN-13: 9780198520702 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 288 str.

Charles Stiller

Opis

About 1,450 cases of childhood cancer are diagnosed each year throughout Great Britain. This book gives detailed information in tables and graphs on incidence, survival, and mortality rates for the country as a whole, including trends since the 1960s.

Recenzje

Researchers will find the book a useful reference source. ...This is a scholarly piece of work and the methods used cannot be faulted. ...as a clean and tidy piece of epidemiology. It is admirable.

O autorze

Charles Stiller has been a member of Childhood Cancer Research Group since 1976 and is now Senior Research Fellow and Director of the National Registry of Childhood Tumours. He has been involved in descriptive epidemiology of childhood cancer, studies of outcome for children and young people with cancer in relation to patterns of organization of medical care, and studies of genetic factors in relation to aetiology of childhood cancer. Mr Stiller has been a member of the Children's Cancer and Leukaemia Group (formerly the UK Children's Cancer Study Group) since 1984 and has served on several of its working groups. He is also a Member of the Paediatric Panel of the European Journal of Cancer.