%0 Journal Article
%T Advances in paediatric cancer treatment
%A Federica Saletta
%A Loretta M.S. Lau
%A Michaela S. Seng
%J SCIE-indexed Journal
%D 2014
%X Cancer in children is rare with an incidence of 140-155 per million per year (age <15 years) (1,2) (Table 1). This translates to ~1 in 7,000 children is diagnosed with cancer each year. For the 15 to 19 years age group, the incidence is 210 per million with a different distribution of cancer diagnosis. Despite the rarity of cancer, malignant neoplasm is the most common cause of death after accidents in children aged 5 to 14 years, accounting for 23% of mortality (7)
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