Poverty and Survival in Childhood Cancer: A Framework to Move Toward Systemic Change

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Julie Anna Wolfson. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2021.

. 2021 Mar 1;113(3):227-230.

doi: 10.1093/jnci/djaa108.

¹ Division of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Institute for Cancer Outcomes and Survivorship, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.

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Poverty and Targeted Immunotherapy: Survival in Children's Oncology Group Clinical Trials for High-Risk Neuroblastoma.
Bona K, Li Y, Winestone LE, Getz KD, Huang YS, Fisher BT, Desai AV, Richardson T, Hall M, Naranjo A, Henderson TO, Aplenc R, Bagatell R. Bona K, et al. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2021 Mar 1;113(3):282-291. doi: 10.1093/jnci/djaa107. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2021. PMID: 33227816 Free PMC article.

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