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Do parents of children with congenital malformations have a higher cancer risk? A nationwide study in Denmark.
British journal of cancer - 27 Aug 2002
Zhu J L, Basso O, Hasle H, Winther J F, Olsen J H, Olsen J
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To investigate whether parents of children with congenital malformations more often developed cancer after birth of the child, a population-based case-control study in Denmark was undertaken. By linking the Cancer Registry with the Central Population Registry, we identified 8783 cancer patients having their first child born between 1977 and 1995 before the cancer was diagnosed. Parents of 41 206 firstborn...
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