Cancer in Childhood
| Autor: | Eugene J. McDonald, Max Ritvo, John D. Houghton |
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| Rok vydání: | 1942 |
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| Zdroj: | Radiology. 39:278-282 |
| ISSN: | 1527-1315 0033-8419 |
| DOI: | 10.1148/39.3.278 |
| Popis: | According to the census (1), 153,846 persons died of cancer in the United States of America during the year 1939. Of these 1,103, or 0.7 per cent, were under fifteen years of age (Table I). The vital statistics of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for the year 1939 show that the death rate for cancer in childhood was greater than for pertussis, pulmonary tuberculosis, measles, diabetes, cerebrospinal meningitis, syphilis, scarlet fever, or typhoid; while the only diseases which had higher death rates were “influenza,” diseases of the nervous system, appendicitis, diarrhea and the enteric diseases, and pneumonia. Statistics from this source also indicate that during the past twenty-five years there has been an increase in the number of deaths from cancer in children, while in the case of many of the diseases common in infancy and childhood there has been a progressive decrease (Table II). Thus it is evident that cancer occurs with sufficient frequency in the young to occupy an important place in differenti... |
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