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Malignant disease in children (including haematological disease, such as leukemia and lymphoma) accounts for approximately 1 % of all registered malignancies. Whilst each year approximately 12,500 children and adolescents are diagnosed with cancer in the United States, nearly 80 % of children diagnosed with cancer become long-term survivors, and the majority of them are considered cured. Nevertheless, in the USA cancer remains the leading cause of death from disease among children.

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Hiorns, M., Arthurs, O. (2016). Tumor Imaging. In: Carachi, R., Grosfeld, J. (eds) The Surgery of Childhood Tumors. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48590-3_7

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