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A method to identify California's sickle-cell disease population and its linkage to the California Cancer Registry.
Journal of registry management - 1 Jan 2012
Brown Monica, Brunson Ann, Wun Ted
Abstract excerpt
The primary purpose of this study was to develop methods to estimate cancer risk among those with sickle-cell disease (SCD) in California. SCD is an inherited disorder of hemoglobin. Increased hematopoietic cell turnover, chronic inflammation, and reduced immune function have led to speculation that cancer risk may be higher in this group. Despite this conjecture, there is a dearth of population-based studies on...
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