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Comment
. 2020 Sep;67(9):e28427.
doi: 10.1002/pbc.28427. Epub 2020 Jun 26.

Delayed cancer diagnoses and high mortality in children during the COVID-19 pandemic

Yang-Yang Ding  1 , Sneha Ramakrishna  2 , Adrienne H Long  2 , Charles A Phillips  1 , Raul Montiel-Esparza  2 , Caroline J Diorio  1 , L Charles Bailey  1 , Shannon L Maude  1 , Richard Aplenc  1 , Vandana Batra  1 , Anne F Reilly  1 , Susan R Rheingold  1 , Norman J Lacayo  2 , Kathleen M Sakamoto  2 , Stephen P Hunger  1
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Delayed cancer diagnoses and high mortality in children during the COVID-19 pandemic

Yang-Yang Ding et al. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2020 Sep.
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