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birth weightcancer in childhood

Birth weight and the incidence of childhood cancer

Autor(en)

Daling J

Veröffentlichungsdatum

1985

Ort der Sudie

Washington State, USA

Abstract

Birth certificates for 681 children with cancer were linked with cancer registry data. Among children with cancer (particularly leukaemia and neuroblastoma) diagnosed before age 2 there was a greater incidence of high birth weight (over 4000g)

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