Pulmonary function testing (PFT) was performed on 29 long-term survivors of childhood cancer. The patients, whose mean age was 11.7 years and whose mean age at diagnosis was 3.7 years, included 12 females and 17 males. Original diagnoses included 15 patients with leukemia and 14 individuals with sol
Incidence and clinical relevance of abnormal complete blood counts in long-term survivors of childhood cancer
โ Scribed by Zsofia B. Long; Kevin C. Oeffinger; Sandra L. Brooks; Lori Fischbach; T. Robert Harris; Debra A. Eshelman; Gail E. Tomlinson; George R. Buchanan
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 174 KB
- Volume
- 106
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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