Outcome of treatment for childhood cancer in black as compared with white children. The St Jude Children's Research Hospital experience, 1962 through 1992.

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Published in JAMA on February 22, 1995

Authors

C H Pui1, J M Boyett, M L Hancock, C B Pratt, W H Meyer, W M Crist

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Hematology-Oncology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38101-0318.

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