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Teratoma qualifies as a [[rare disease]], but is not extremely rare. Sacrococcygeal teratoma alone is diagnosed at birth in 1 out of 40,000 babies. Given the current [[world population]] [[birth rate]], this equals 5 per day or 1800 per year. Add to that number sacrococcygeal teratomas diagnosed later in life, and teratomas in other locations, and the [[Incidence (epidemiology)|incidence]] approaches 10,000 new diagnoses of teratoma per year. | Teratoma qualifies as a [[rare disease]], but is not extremely rare. Sacrococcygeal teratoma alone is diagnosed at birth in 1 out of 40,000 babies. Given the current [[world population]] [[birth rate]], this equals 5 per day or 1800 per year. Add to that number sacrococcygeal teratomas diagnosed later in life, and teratomas in other locations, and the [[Incidence (epidemiology)|incidence]] approaches 10,000 new diagnoses of teratoma per year. | ||
<ref name="pmid18622858">{{cite journal | |||
| author = López RM, Múrcia DB | |||
| title = First description of malignant retrobulbar and intracranial teratoma in a lesser kestrel (Falco naumanni) | |||
| journal = Avian Pathol. | |||
| volume = 37 | |||
| issue = 4 | |||
| pages = 413–4 | |||
|date=Aug 2008 | |||
| pmid = 18622858 | |||
| doi = 10.1080/03079450802216660 | |||
| url = | |||
}}</ref> | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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Epidemiology & Demographics
Teratoma qualifies as a rare disease, but is not extremely rare. Sacrococcygeal teratoma alone is diagnosed at birth in 1 out of 40,000 babies. Given the current world population birth rate, this equals 5 per day or 1800 per year. Add to that number sacrococcygeal teratomas diagnosed later in life, and teratomas in other locations, and the incidence approaches 10,000 new diagnoses of teratoma per year.
References
- ↑ López RM, Múrcia DB (Aug 2008). "First description of malignant retrobulbar and intracranial teratoma in a lesser kestrel (Falco naumanni)". Avian Pathol. 37 (4): 413–4. doi:10.1080/03079450802216660. PMID 18622858.