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Increasing incidence of childhood leukaemia: a controversy re-examined

We provide evidence of a gradual increase in the incidence of childhood leukaemia over the twentieth century from examination of trends in both incidence and mortality in England and Wales. We conclude that much of the recorded increase is likely to be real.

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Autores principales: Shah, A, Coleman, M P
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2360402/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17712312
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6603946
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spelling pubmed-23604022009-09-10 Increasing incidence of childhood leukaemia: a controversy re-examined Shah, A Coleman, M P Br J Cancer Epidemiology We provide evidence of a gradual increase in the incidence of childhood leukaemia over the twentieth century from examination of trends in both incidence and mortality in England and Wales. We conclude that much of the recorded increase is likely to be real. Nature Publishing Group 2007-10-08 2007-08-21 /pmc/articles/PMC2360402/ /pubmed/17712312 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6603946 Text en Copyright © 2007 Cancer Research UK 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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Shah, A
Coleman, M P
Increasing incidence of childhood leukaemia: a controversy re-examined
title Increasing incidence of childhood leukaemia: a controversy re-examined
title_full Increasing incidence of childhood leukaemia: a controversy re-examined
title_fullStr Increasing incidence of childhood leukaemia: a controversy re-examined
title_full_unstemmed Increasing incidence of childhood leukaemia: a controversy re-examined
title_short Increasing incidence of childhood leukaemia: a controversy re-examined
title_sort increasing incidence of childhood leukaemia: a controversy re-examined
topic Epidemiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2360402/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17712312
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6603946
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