Childhood cancers: Analysis of 1279 cases at Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

Childhood cancers: Analysis of 1279 cases at Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

To determine the clinicopathological pattern of childhood malignancies registered with a pathology-based tumour registry. The descriptive retrospective study was conducted at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Rawalpindi, Pakistan, and comprised data related to all the histologically diagnosed...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association 2020-06, Vol.70 (6), p.1009-1012
Hauptverfasser: Jamal, Shahid, Khadim, Muhammad Tahir, Din, Hafeez Ud, Asif, Muhammad, Ahmad, Rabia, Rashid, Farhat
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Sprache:eng
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Age Distribution
Aged
Cancer in children
Child
Demographic aspects
Diagnosis
Female
Health aspects
Humans
Male
Neoplasms - epidemiology
Pakistan - epidemiology
Pediatric research
Registries
Retrospective Studies
Statistics
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Zusammenfassung:To determine the clinicopathological pattern of childhood malignancies registered with a pathology-based tumour registry. The descriptive retrospective study was conducted at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Rawalpindi, Pakistan, and comprised data related to all the histologically diagnosed malignant childhood tumours in the institutional tumour registry from January 2009 to December 2018. Data was analysed using SPSS 20 for the site of involvement, age distribution and histological types of tumours. Of the total 37793 malignant tumours, 1279(3.38%) were in paediatric subjects aged
ISSN:0030-9982
DOI:10.5455/JPMA.26579