Risk of malignant childhood germ cell tumors in relation to demographic, gestational, and perinatal characteristics

Cancer Epidemiology

Volumn 46, Issue , 2017, Pages 42-49

  Hall, Clinton ^a   Ritz, Beate ^a   Cockburn, Myles ^b   Davidson, Tom B ^c   Heck, Julia E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Childhood; Congenital malformation; Epidemiology; Germ cell tumor; Perinatal; Race; Risk factor; Teratoma; Yolk sac tumor

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH CERTIFICATE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GERM CELL TUMOR; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HYDRAMNIOS; INFANT; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; OLIGOHYDRAMNIOS; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERATOMA; YOLK SAC TUMOR; CASE CONTROL STUDY; NEOPLASMS, GERM CELL AND EMBRYONAL; PATHOLOGY; PERINATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES; RISK FACTOR;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NEOPLASMS, GERM CELL AND EMBRYONAL; PERINATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS; TERATOMA;

EID: 85007109385     PISSN: 18777821     EISSN: 1877783X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.canep.2016.12.002     Document Type: Article

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