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Pre-conception X-rays and childhood cancers.

An analysis of data collected during the course of the Oxford Survey of Childhood Cancer has shown that it is possible to recognize different facets of memory bias without systematic checking of individuals' records, and to make use of the biased data. The position of foetal irradiation in the...

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Autores principales: Kneale, G. W., Stewart, A. M.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 1980
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2010211/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7370161
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description An analysis of data collected during the course of the Oxford Survey of Childhood Cancer has shown that it is possible to recognize different facets of memory bias without systematic checking of individuals' records, and to make use of the biased data. The position of foetal irradiation in the aetiology of childhood cancers has been re-affirmed, but there is no support for the idea that exposure of parental gonads to diagnostic X-rays is conducive to cancer in the next generation.
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spelling pubmed-20102112009-09-10 Pre-conception X-rays and childhood cancers. Kneale, G. W. Stewart, A. M. Br J Cancer Research Article An analysis of data collected during the course of the Oxford Survey of Childhood Cancer has shown that it is possible to recognize different facets of memory bias without systematic checking of individuals' records, and to make use of the biased data. The position of foetal irradiation in the aetiology of childhood cancers has been re-affirmed, but there is no support for the idea that exposure of parental gonads to diagnostic X-rays is conducive to cancer in the next generation. Nature Publishing Group 1980-02 /pmc/articles/PMC2010211/ /pubmed/7370161 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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