Cancer risk among children born after assisted conception

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 369, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 1819-1827

  Williams, Carrie L ^a   Bunch, Kathryn J ^c   Stiller, Charles A ^c   Murphy, Michael F G ^c   Botting, Beverley J ^a   Wallace, W Hamish ^d   Davies, Melanie ^b   Sutcliffe, Alastair G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CRYOPRESERVATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FOLLOW UP; GERM CELL TUMOR; HEPATOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; INFANT; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; KIDNEY TUMOR; LEUKEMIA; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NEUROBLASTOMA; PARENTAL AGE; PARITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINOBLASTOMA; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84887098808     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1301675     Document Type: Article

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