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Cancer among children of parents with autoimmune diseases.
British journal of cancer - 1 Apr 2000
Mellemkjaer L, Alexander F, Olsen J H
Abstract excerpt
Many different aetiologies for childhood cancer have been suggested, but few are well established. One is that parental autoimmune disease is linked with susceptibility for haematopoietic malignancies in their offspring during childhood. The present study is the first to investigate this hypothesis using a follow-up design. A cohort of 53,811 children of more than 36,000 patients diagnosed with a systemic,...
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