PMID- 23012108
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
DCOM- 20121002
LR  - 20211021
IS  - 1319-1683 (Print)
IS  - 2229-340X (Electronic)
IS  - 1319-1683 (Linking)
VI  - 13
IP  - 2
DP  - 2006 May
TI  - Patterns of childhood cancer in children admitted to the institute of nuclear 
      medicine, molecular biology and oncology (inmo), wad medani, gezira state.
PG  - 71-4
AB  - INTRODUCTION: Cancers form one of the major causes of death in children between 
      the ages of one and 15 years. They differ markedly from adult cancers in their 
      nature, distribution and prognosis. The patterns of childhood cancers in America 
      and Europe are almost the same, with leukemia and central nervous system tumors 
      accounting for over one-half of the new cases. In contrast, lymphoma is the most 
      common prevailing cancer of this age group in Africa. OBJECTIVE: The objective of 
      this study is to determine the patterns of childhood cancers in Gezira State, 
      Central Sudan. It is a retrospective study using hospital records. All children 
      with cancer, aged 1 - 15 years diagnosed by means of histological or cytological 
      examination admitted to the Institute of Nuclear Medicine, Molecular Biology and 
      Oncology from May 1999 - December 2004 were included in the study. RESULTS: The 
      results showed a pattern of childhood lymphoma as the most common cancer (42.8%) 
      followed by acute lymphoblastic leukemia (19.8%) and kidney tumor (12.8%). The 
      prevalence of cancer was found to be higher among boys (64.7%) than girls (35.3%) 
      with a rate of 1.8:1. Most of the children admitted with cancer were from rural 
      areas (66.1%) compared to (33.9%) from urban areas. CONCLUSION: Lymphoma, acute 
      lymphoblastic leukemia and bone tumor commonly occurred in children above 5 years 
      in contradistinction to kidney tumor and retinoblastoma which was prevalent in 
      children less than 5 years of age.
FAU - Haroun, Huda M
AU  - Haroun HM
AD  - University of Gezira, Wad-Medani, Sudan.
FAU - Mahfouz, Mohamed S
AU  - Mahfouz MS
FAU - Elhaj, Ahmed M
AU  - Elhaj AM
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - India
TA  - J Family Community Med
JT  - Journal of family & community medicine
JID - 100911100
PMC - PMC3410067
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Cancer
OT  - Leukemia
OT  - Lymphoma
OT  - Pattern
OT  - Prevalence
EDAT- 2006/05/01 00:00
MHDA- 2006/05/01 00:01
PMCR- 2006/05/01
CRDT- 2012/09/27 06:00
PHST- 2012/09/27 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2006/05/01 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2006/05/01 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 2006/05/01 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - JFCM-13-71 [pii]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Family Community Med. 2006 May;13(2):71-4.