Risk of cancer among the offspring of women who experienced parental death during pregnancy

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2204-2206

  Lorenzo Bermejo, Justo ^a   Sundquist, Jan ^b   Hemminki, Kari ^a,b  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; CARCINOID; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MENTAL STRESS; NOTE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; STANDARDIZATION; SYSTEMATIZED NOMENCLATURE OF MEDICINE; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BEREAVEMENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RISK FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SWEDEN;

EID: 38849165842     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-07-0638     Document Type: Note

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