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FIGURE 1 : Geographical assessment of patient location in Peru by City.
FIGURE 2 : Kaplan Meier curves for this study. A) OS and EFS for all patients. B) EFS based on treatment period. C) EFS based on histology. D) EFS based on Metastasis at diagnosis.
TABLE 1 Resources for Pediatric Neuro Oncology
TABLE 2 Demographics and patient characteristics
TABLE 3 Clinical management and pathology
TABLE 4 Factors affecting overall and event-free survival
SUPPLEMENTAL TABLE 1 : Availability of Immunohistochemistry for the two periods of treatment.
SUPPLEMENTAL FIGURE 1 : Causes of childhood mortality for ages 1-9 were extracted from PAHO database for the years of 1999 and 2015. Causes are identified by their current ICD 10 code and presented as number of deaths per 100,000.