Population density and childhood leukaemia: Results of the EUROCLUS study

European Journal of Cancer

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 439-444

  Alexander, F E ^a   Boyle, P ^b   Carli, P M ^c   Coebergh, J W ^d   Ekbom, A ^e   Levi, F ^f   McKinney, P A ^g   McWhirter, W ^h   Michaelis, J ⁱ   Peris Bonet, R ^j   Petridou, E ^k   Pompe Kirn, V ^l   Plesko I ^m   Pukkala, E ⁿ   Rahu, M ^o   Stiller, C A ^p   Storm, H ^q   Terracini, B ^r   Vatten, L ^s   Wray, N ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c HÔPITAL DU BOCAGE   (France)

^d ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^g NHS HEALTH SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

ⁱ JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^j UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^k UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^l INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Slovenia)

^m CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Slovakia)

ⁿ FINNISH CANCER REGISTRY   (Finland)

^o Institute of Experimental and Clinical Medicine Tallinn   (Estonia)

^p UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^q Danish Cancer Registry   (Denmark)

^r UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^s Medical Technology Research Centre   (Norway)

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Author keywords

Childhood leukaemia; Clustering; Epidemiology; Infections; Poisson regression; Population density

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; CLINICAL RESEARCH; EUROPE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INFECTION; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

EID: 0033105433     PISSN: 09598049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-8049(98)00385-2     Document Type: Article

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