Diagnosing childhood cancer in primary care - a realistic expectation?

The burden of childhood cancer for Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) is unknown. PCTs in Yorkshire are representative of England and Wales and show little heterogeneity in the incidence rates of childhood cancer. Each PCT will expect three to five newly diagnosed children per year. A single GP is likely to...

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Veröffentlicht in:	British journal of cancer 2004-05, Vol.90 (10), p.1882-1884
Hauptverfasser:	Feltbower, R G, Lewis, I J, Picton, S, Richards, M, Glaser, A W, Kinsey, S E, McKinney, P A
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adolescent Biological and medical sciences Biomedical and Life Sciences Biomedicine Cancer Research Child, Preschool Clinical Diagnosis, Differential Drug Resistance England - epidemiology Epidemiologic Studies Epidemiology Health services Humans Incidence Infant Infant, Newborn Medical research Medical sciences Molecular Medicine Neoplasms - diagnosis Neoplasms - epidemiology Oncology Population Primary care Primary Health Care - statistics & numerical data Reference Values Registries - statistics & numerical data Tumors Wales - epidemiology
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Zusammenfassung:	The burden of childhood cancer for Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) is unknown. PCTs in Yorkshire are representative of England and Wales and show little heterogeneity in the incidence rates of childhood cancer. Each PCT will expect three to five newly diagnosed children per year. A single GP is likely to see an incident case once every 20 years.
ISSN:	0007-0920 1532-1827
DOI:	10.1038/sj.bjc.6601733