Mass screening for neuroblastoma in Japa
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Sawada, Tadashi; Nishi, Motoi; Takeda, Takeo; Iehara, Tomoko
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Article
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1998
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Results of a 11-year-experience with mass screening for neuroblastoma in 6-month-old infants in Japan are presented. From 11,284,837 infants who were screened, 1,400 cases of neuroblastoma were detected, an incidence of 1/ 6,500-7,500 infants by HPLC screening. Most of the cases (75%) were at stages