Childbearing and the risk of leukemia in Sweden

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 47-53

  Ekström, Karin ^a,b   Wuu, Joanne ^c   Hsieh, Chung Cheng ^c,d   Glimelius, Bengt ^b,e   Lambe, Mats ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Age at birth; Case control; Etiology; Leukemia; Parity

Indexed keywords

ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE NONLYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; CELL LINEAGE; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PARITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWEDEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, CHRONIC; LEUKEMIA, NONLYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE; MATERNAL AGE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PARITY; PREGNANCY; REFERENCE VALUES; REGISTRIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SWEDEN;

EID: 0036167981     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1013917610685     Document Type: Article

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