Neurofibromatosis type 1 and childhood cancer

Matsui, Ichiro; Tanimura, Masako; Kobayashi, Noboru; Sawada, Tadashi; Nagahara, Noboru; Akatsuka, J

doi:10.1002/1097-0142(19931101)72:9<2746::aid-cncr2820720936>3.0.co;2-w

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Neurofibromatosis type 1 and childhood cancer

Published in Cancer • Nov 1, 1993

Authors:

Ichiro Matsui

Masako Tanimura

Noboru Kobayashi

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Patients with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) are prone to develop malignancy, particularly malignant schwannoma and glioma in adults. METHODS: To assess the risk for childhood malignancy in NF1, 26,084 patients with cancer younger than 15 years of age registered from 1969 to 1989 in the ...

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Medicine

Rhabdomyosarcoma

Neurofibromatosis

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