Maligne Neoplasien im Kindesalter

✍ Scribed by Jacobi, H. ;Krapp, R. D.

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag
• Year: 1975
• Weight: 235 KB
• Volume: 120
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0044-2917
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00440266

✦ Synopsis

575 malignant tumors were treated in the Childrens Hospital of Freiburg University during the years 1957 1974. This means that 0.86% of all hospital admissions had a newly recognized malignant neoplasia. There was no increase in the relative frequency of tumor admissions throughout these years. The most frequent tumor groups were expectedly leukemias (41.8~o), central nervous system tumors (25.6~ lymphosareomas (6.3~o), tIodgkin's disease (5~o), and neurohlastomas (5o/0). In comparison to tumor statistics comprising whole populations instead of admissions to a single hospital the relative frequency of leukemias and CNS-tumors is higher in our series. This may be due to selective admissions of patients with different tumors to different treatment centers rather than to a higher incidence of these neoplasias in this area.