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Preferred term

childhood kidney cancer  

Definition(s)

  • WILMS' TUMOR IS generally a solitary growth that may occur on any part of the kidney (either one). It accounts for almost all renal cancers in childhood and occurs in approximately equal frequency in both sexes and races, with an incidence of 7.8 million children under the age of 15 years. [Source: Encyclopedia of Cancer and Society; Kidney Cancer, Childhood]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-XQZ0CRHS-M

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