Karina de Cássia Braga Ribeiro

• Workshop on Scientific Writing | São Paulo - SP, AO.R

• Abstract

  Childhood Cancer is rare. In developed countries, only about 0.5% of all Cancer cases occur in children under 15 years of age. Contrary to what is observed in adults, epithelial tumors (Carcinomas) are rare in children and, in this age group, solid tumors are predominantly embryonal. Therefore, it is more appropriate to classify childhood cancers according to histology. Although childhood…

  Childhood cancer in São Paulo, Brazil: perinatal, reproductive and environmental risk factors, AP.TEM
• IARC 50th Anniversary Conference, AR.EXT

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• Abstract

  Childhood cancer is rare. In developed countries, only about 0.5% of all cancer cases occur in children under 15 years of age. Contrary to what is observed in adults, epithelial tumors (carcinomas) are rare in children and, in this age group, solid tumors are predominantly embryonal. Therefore, it is more appropriate to classify childhood cancers according to histology. Although childhood…

  Childhood cancer in Sao Paulo, Brazil: perinatal, reproductive and environmental risk factors, BP.IC

• Abstract

  Worldwide, the analysis of cancer mortality rates has shown a high proportion of certain types of cancer that isolated are not so common, but reaching an expressive participation in the scenario of cancer morbidity and mortality when considered as a group; these are the so-called rare cancers. Although rare tumors account for approximately 20% of all cancers, they are associated with incr…

  Descriptive epidemiology of rare tumors in the State of São Paulo, BP.IC

• Abstract

  A significant improvement in the survival of children with cancer has been observed in the last 20 years. In high-income countries since the end of the 90s, the survival rates at 5 years are close to 80%. Unfortunately, despite advances in diagnosis and treatment, survival rates are still low- in low and middle-income countries of. This difference between the results observed in the high-…

  Diagnostic delay in pediatric Cancer: social determinants and impact on survival, BP.IC

• Abstract

  Leukemias are the most frequent childhood neoplasia worldwide, corresponding to approximately one-third of all malignancies in this age group. Acute lymphocytic leukemia is the most common sub-type. Most leukemia cases still have an unknown etiology; however, several environmental and genetic risk factors have already been described. At the end of the 1980’s, KINLEN suggested that the exc…

  Association among childhood leukemia, growth and population grouping: study of data from São Paulo municipality, BE.PQ