Evidence of increasing mortality with longer time to diagnosis of cancer: is there a paediatric exception?

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¹ Inserm U953, Epidemiological Research Unit on Perinatal, Women's and Children's Health, Maternité de Port Royal, 53 Avenue de l'Observatoire, 75014 Paris, France; Université Paris Descartes, 12 rue de l'Ecole de Médecine, 75006 Paris, France; Université Paris Sud, 63 rue Gabriel Péri, 94276 Le Kremlin Bicêtre, France. Electronic address: jean-francois.brasme@inserm.fr.
² Université Paris Sud, 63 rue Gabriel Péri, 94276 Le Kremlin Bicêtre, France; Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Oncology, Institut Gustave Roussy, 39 rue Camille Desmoulins, 94805 Villejuif, France.
³ Inserm U953, Epidemiological Research Unit on Perinatal, Women's and Children's Health, Maternité de Port Royal, 53 Avenue de l'Observatoire, 75014 Paris, France; Université Paris Descartes, 12 rue de l'Ecole de Médecine, 75006 Paris, France; Department of General Pediatrics, Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, AP-HP, 149 rue de Sèvres, 75015 Paris, France.

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Jean-Francois Brasme et al. Eur J Cancer. 2014 Mar.

. 2014 Mar;50(4):864-6.

doi: 10.1016/j.ejca.2013.11.036. Epub 2014 Jan 2.

¹ Inserm U953, Epidemiological Research Unit on Perinatal, Women's and Children's Health, Maternité de Port Royal, 53 Avenue de l'Observatoire, 75014 Paris, France; Université Paris Descartes, 12 rue de l'Ecole de Médecine, 75006 Paris, France; Université Paris Sud, 63 rue Gabriel Péri, 94276 Le Kremlin Bicêtre, France. Electronic address: jean-francois.brasme@inserm.fr.
² Université Paris Sud, 63 rue Gabriel Péri, 94276 Le Kremlin Bicêtre, France; Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Oncology, Institut Gustave Roussy, 39 rue Camille Desmoulins, 94805 Villejuif, France.
³ Inserm U953, Epidemiological Research Unit on Perinatal, Women's and Children's Health, Maternité de Port Royal, 53 Avenue de l'Observatoire, 75014 Paris, France; Université Paris Descartes, 12 rue de l'Ecole de Médecine, 75006 Paris, France; Department of General Pediatrics, Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, AP-HP, 149 rue de Sèvres, 75015 Paris, France.

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Evidence of increasing mortality with longer diagnostic intervals for five common cancers: a cohort study in primary care.
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