Congenital abnormalities and childhood cancer: A cohort record-linkage study

Cancer

Volumn 103, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1939-1948

  Agha, Mohammad M ^a,b,c,h   Williams, Jack I ^b,c,d   Marrett, Loraine ^c,e   To, Teresa ^b,c,f   Zipursky, Alvin ^f   Dodds, Linda ^g  

^a PEDIATRIC ONCOLOGY GROUP OF ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d TORONTO REHABILITATION INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^e CANCER CARE ONTARIO   (Canada)

^f HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^g DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^h INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Children; Cohort studies; Congenital abnormalities; Genetic susceptibility; Medical record linkage; Neoplasm; Proportional hazards models

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ABNORMALITIES; ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEUKEMIA; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; RISK FACTORS; SARCOMA;

EID: 17644371648     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.20985     Document Type: Article

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