Major life event - Diagnosis of schizophrenia in offspring and risk for cancer

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 90, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1364-1366

  Dalton, S O ^a   Laursen, T M ^b   Mortensen, P B ^b   Johansen, C ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cohort studies; Life change events; Neoplasms; Psychological; Registries; Stress

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENMARK; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; LARYNX CANCER; LEUKEMIA; LIFE EVENT; LIFESTYLE; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; MENTAL PATIENT; MOUTH CANCER; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OVARY CANCER; PANCREAS CANCER; PHARYNX CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROSTATE CANCER; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STRESS; TONGUE CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERUS CANCER;

CHILD; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PARENTS; RISK; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SMOKING; STRESS;

EID: 2342477216     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6601695     Document Type: Article

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