Early life exposure to infections and risk of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 128, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1632-1643

  Urayama, Kevin Y ^a   Ma, Xiaomei ^b   Selvin, Steve ^a   Metayer, Catherine ^a   Chokkalingam, Anand P ^a   Wiemels, Joseph L ^c   Does, Monique ^a   Chang, Jeffrey ^d   Wong, Alan ^e   Trachtenberg, Elizabeth ^f   Buffler, Patricia A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d NATIONAL HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (Taiwan)

^e Oakland Research Institute ^*  (United States)

^f CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OAKLAND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

birth order; childhood leukemia; daycare; infection; risk factor

Indexed keywords

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BIRTH ORDER; CANCER RISK; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DAY CARE; DIARRHEA; EAR INFECTION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK REDUCTION; SCHOOL CHILD; UNITED STATES; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; CALIFORNIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFECTION; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PRECURSOR CELL LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA-LYMPHOMA; RISK;

EID: 79551492818     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: 10970215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.25752     Document Type: Article

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