Prenatal exposures and childhood cancer

Pediatric and Developmental Pathology

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 208-214

  Bolande, Robert P ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer susceptibility; Carcinogenesis; Childhood cancer; Host resistance; Prenatal exposures; Regression

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; PARENT; PERINATAL INFECTION; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; REVIEW; TRANSPLACENTAL CARCINOGENESIS; VIRUS CARCINOGENESIS; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; NEOPLASM REGRESSION, SPONTANEOUS; NEOPLASMS; PATERNAL EXPOSURE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0032910330     PISSN: 10935266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100249900115     Document Type: Review

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