The burden of leukemia in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: 15 years period (1999–2013)

Abstract Background Leukemia is a malignant neoplasm that arises from hematopoietic cells. The number of leukemia cases has dramatically increased from 297,000 to 437, 033 cases worldwide. As result, the the Saudi Cancer Registry ramked leukemia as the 5th type of cancer cases among both genders in...

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Main Authors: Amen Bawazir, Nouf Al-Zamel, Abeer Amen, Maaged A. Akiel, Naif M. Alhawiti, Ali Alshehri
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-07-01
Series:BMC Cancer
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12885-019-5897-5