Parental smoking and childhood cancer: Results from the United Kingdom Childhood Cancer Study

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 373-381

  Pang, D ^a   McNally, R ^a   Birch, J M ^a  

^a ROYAL MANCHESTER CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Case control study; Childhood cancer; Hepatoblastoma; Parental smoking

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEPATOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL CARE; NEWBORN; PARENT; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING HABIT; SOLID TUMOR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEPATOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; INFANT; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; PATERNAL EXPOSURE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; SMOKING;

EID: 0037428702     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6600774     Document Type: Article

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