Abstract
A national-scale cooperative project focusing on rare (or very rare) pediatric tumors and called the TREP project (Tumori Rari in Età Pediatrica [Rare Tumors in Pediatric Age]) was launched in Italy in 2000 under the auspices of the Associazione Italiana Ematologia Oncologia Pediatrica (AIEOP), and in cooperation with the Società Italiana Chirurgia Pediatrica (SICP) (Ferrari et al. 2007).
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Ferrari, A. (2012). Italy. In: Schneider, D., Brecht, I., Olson, T., Ferrari, A. (eds) Rare Tumors In Children and Adolescents. Pediatric Oncology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04197-6_9
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