- Abstract:
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OBJECTIVES: To investigate the hypothesis that children of men whose jobs involve contact with many people (particularly children) are at an increased risk of leukaemia. METHODS: A population based dataset obtained from routinely collected death certificates involving 14,168 cancer deaths occurring before the age of 15 years registered in England and Wales between 1959-63 and 1970-90. Associations were assessed with the proportional cancer mortality ratio (PCMR), with all childhood cancer dea...
Expand abstract - Publication status:
- Published
- Journal:
- Occupational and environmental medicine
- Volume:
- 56
- Issue:
- 7
- Pages:
- 438-442
- Publication date:
- 1999-07-05
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1470-7926
- ISSN:
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1351-0711
- URN:
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uuid:18d2ba5e-bf4d-4510-8f62-74fb12b0b305
- Source identifiers:
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66598
- Local pid:
- pubs:66598
- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Copyright date:
- 1999
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Are the children of fathers whose jobs involve contact with many people at an increased risk of leukaemia?
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