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Background. Little is known about the frequency of various childhood cancers in Iraq. The aim of this paper is to report the frequency of childhood cancers in Iraq in the largest series of Iraqi patients with cancer. Patients and methods. In the largest series of 63,923 Iraqi patients with different types of newly diagnosed cancer registered by the...
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... which accounts for 28% of cancer cases, lymphoma (14.3%) and CNST (16.3%). Neoplasms of the hematopoietic system (leukemias and lymphomas) account for about 42% of all childhood cancers. Malignant lymphomas, bone tumors and germinal tumors are more frequently diagnosed in Poland, but the incidence of CNST is lower than in other countries (6). Fig. 1 shows the pattern of childhood cancers in 4 ...
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