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Acknowledgements
We thank Drs. Faith Kung and Alice L. Yu for their assistance locating data on prognoses of
tumor patients. Drs. Lynne M. Bird, William B. Weil, and Donna A. Rosenberg made helpful
suggestions on the manuscript.
Reprinted with permission from Pediatrics, Volume 101, Number 4, April 1998, pp. 625-629.
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Seth M. Asner, M.D. is in the Department of Pediatrics of the University of California San
Diego's School of Medicine.
Rita Swan, Ph.D. is the president of Children's Healthcare is a Legal Duty (CHILD).
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