Familial and personal medical history of cancer and nervous system conditions among adults with glioma and controls

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 145, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 581-593

  Wrensch, Margaret ^a   Lee, Marion ^a   Miike, Rei ^a   Newman, Beth ^b   Barger, Geoffrey ^c   Davis, Richard ^a   Wiencke, John ^a   Neuhaus, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

brain neoplasms; family characteristics; glioma; nervous system diseases

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER FAMILY; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CHICKENPOX; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; SEIZURE; TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS; VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 0030989519     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a009154     Document Type: Article

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