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Background
Abandonment of treatment is a major cause of treatment failure and poor survival in children with cancer in low‐ and middle‐income countries. The incidence of treatment abandonment in Peru has not been reported. The aim of this study was to examine the prevalence of and factors associated with treatment abandonment by pediatric patients with solid tumors in Peru.
Methods
We retrospectively...
BackgroundThe latency to diagnosis is the time between the detection of a patient's first symptoms and the cancer diagnosis. The aim of this study was to identify the latency to the diagnosis of cancer in children in Peru and the clinical and sociodemographic factors associated with this latency.
MethodsAll patients diagnosed with lymphoma and solid tumors between 2012 and 2014 at a social security...
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