Journal article
Evaluation of treatment-related mortality among paediatric cancer deaths: a population based analysis
Abstract
Background:Objectives were to describe the proportion of deaths due to treatment-related mortality (TRM) and to identify risk factors and probable causes of TRM among paediatric cancer deaths in a population-based cohort.Methods:We included children with cancer ⩽18 years diagnosed and treated in Ontario who died between January 2003 and December 2012. Deaths were identified using a provincial registry, the Pediatric Oncology Group of Ontario …
Authors
Pole JD; Gibson P; Ethier M-C; Lazor T; Johnston DL; Portwine C; Silva M; Alexander S; Sung L; on behalf of the International Pediatric Oncology Mortality Classification (IPOMC) Group
Journal
British Journal of Cancer, Vol. 116, No. 4, pp. 540–545
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
February 2017
DOI
10.1038/bjc.2016.443
ISSN
0007-0920