Parental age and risk of sporadic and familial cancer in offspring: Implications for germ cell mutagenesis

Epidemiology

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 747-751

  Hemminki, Kari ^a,b   Kyyrönen, Pentti ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b CNT Novum   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Breast neoplasms; Germ cell mutation; Germ cell mutations; Leukemia; Maternal age; Melanoma; Nervous system neoplasms; Paternal age

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; COLON CANCER; FAMILIAL CANCER; FEMALE; GERM CELL; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MATERNAL AGE; MELANOMA; MUTAGENESIS; PATERNAL AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID CANCER;

EID: 0344199986     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001648-199911000-00016     Document Type: Article

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