In a search for etiologic clues to primary bone cancer in childhood, we examined 1,532
death certificates of all children in the United States dying from these neoplasms, 1960–66 …

Children from birth to 18 years of age who were admitted to the Children's Hospital Medical
Center in Boston with osteogenic sarcoma were found to be significantly taller at the time of …

Bone cancers comprise about 5% of childhood neoplasms. Osteosarcoma, the most
common sub‐type, shows a somewhat irregular geographic pattern of incidence, with low …

A study of 64 cases and 124 friend and neighbor controls was conducted to identify factors
associated with the occurrence of osteosarcoma in young persons. Two types of information …

Although the epidemiology of malignant bone tumours in children and young adults has
been explored, no definitive causation of any specific tumour has yet been identified. We …

BACKGROUND: Risk factors for osteosarcoma in young people were investigated in a
population-based case-control study among residents of New York State, excluding New …

Some descriptive epidemiologic characteristics of primary bone cancers were presented for
black and white residents of New York State (1975–1980) using data from the population …

Marked dissimilarities in the epidemiology of osteosarcoma, Ewing's tumor, and
rhabdomyosarcoma indicate differences in their origins. A major clue to the genesis of …

One hundred twenty-nine children (67 girls and 62 boys) less than 16 years of age with
pathologically verified osteogenic sarcoma have been seen during the 50-year period, 1909 …

Cancer deaths in 39,235 children in the United States, 1950-1959, were studied with respect
to age, sex, geography, and calendar-time. In leukemia mortality a towering peak at 4 years …