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Diagnostic delay in children with central nervous system tumors and the need to improve education

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank Nisha Badders, PhD, for scientific editing of the final manuscript.

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This work was supported, in part, by Cancer Center Support Grant CA21765 from the National Cancer Institute and by ALSAC.

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  1. Department of Global Pediatric Medicine, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 262 Danny Thomas Place, MS 260, Memphis, TN, 38105, USA

    Ibrahim Qaddoumi

  2. Department of Radiation Oncology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, 38105, USA

    Thomas E. Merchant

  3. Department of Surgery, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, 38105, USA

    Fredrick A. Boop

  4. Department of Oncology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, 38105, USA

    Amar Gajjar

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Qaddoumi, I., Merchant, T.E., Boop, F.A. et al. Diagnostic delay in children with central nervous system tumors and the need to improve education. J Neurooncol 145, 591–592 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11060-019-03329-2

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