Access to clinical trials for adolescents with soft tissue sarcomas: Enrollment in European pediatric Soft tissue sarcoma Study Group (EpSSG) protocols.

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Adolescents with cancer are enrolled in clinical trials at far lower rates than children. This report compares the number of adolescents (15-19-year-olds) and children (0-14-year-olds) enrolled in the protocols of the European pediatric Soft tissue sarcoma Study Group (EpSSG) with the number of cases expected to occur.

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Pediatr Blood Cancer

Title: Pediatric blood & cancer

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

ISSN (Electronic): 1545-5017

ISSN (Print): 1545-5009

Publication date (Electronic): Jun 2017

Volume: 64

Issue: 6

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[1 ] Pediatric Oncology Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori, Milano, Italy.

[2 ] Department of Preventive and Predictive Medicine, Evaluative Epidemiology Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori, Milano, Italy.

[3 ] Clinical Trials and Biostatistics Unit, IRCCS Istituto Oncologico Veneto, Padova, Italy.

[4 ] Department of Pediatric Oncology, Institut d'Hematologie et d'Oncologie Pédiatrique, Centre Léon Bérard, Lyon, France.

[5 ] Department of Pediatric Oncology, Emma Children's Hospital-Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

[6 ] Department of Pediatric Oncology, Children's Hospital for Wales, Heath Park, Cardiff, United Kingdom.

[7 ] Department of Pediatric, Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology, Institut Curie, Paris, France.

[8 ] Department of Paediatric Oncology, Royal Marsden Hospital, London, United Kingdom.

[9 ] Department of Paediatric Oncology, Hospital Universitario Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain.

[10 ] Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital Oslo, Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway.

[11 ] Pediatric Hematology and Oncology Division, Padova University, Padova, Italy.

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DOI: 10.1002/pbc.26348

PubMed ID: 27882658

SO-VID: 1b8343eb-ec74-4a01-b1aa-202540473b9e

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Keywords: access to care,adolescents,clinical trials,enrollment,pediatric protocols,rhabdomyosarcoma,soft tissue sarcomas

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Keywords: access to care, adolescents, clinical trials, enrollment, pediatric protocols, rhabdomyosarcoma, soft tissue sarcomas

Access to clinical trials for adolescents with soft tissue sarcomas: Enrollment in European pediatric Soft tissue sarcoma Study Group (EpSSG) protocols.

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