Parental age, family size, and offspring's risk of childhood and adult acute leukemia

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1185-1190

  Larfors, Gunnar ^a,b   Hallböök, Helene ^b   Simonsson, Bengt ^b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; PATERNAL AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RISK FACTOR; SIBLING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DOWN SYNDROME; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, ACUTE; MALE; PARENTS; PRECURSOR CELL LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA-LYMPHOMA; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PROGNOSIS; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; SWEDEN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863587342     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-12-0178     Document Type: Article

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