Association of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia with cancers in family members

Children whose twins have had leukaemia have a higher risk of contracting acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL), confirming a prenatal origin of the disease. This association was not true when considering other types of affected first-degree relatives. Children whose fathers were diagnosed with testic...

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Autores principales: Couto, E, Chen, B, Hemminki, K
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2005
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2361521/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16288301
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6602867
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description Children whose twins have had leukaemia have a higher risk of contracting acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL), confirming a prenatal origin of the disease. This association was not true when considering other types of affected first-degree relatives. Children whose fathers were diagnosed with testicular cancer have a higher risk of ALL.
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spelling pubmed-23615212009-09-10 Association of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia with cancers in family members Couto, E Chen, B Hemminki, K Br J Cancer Short Communication Children whose twins have had leukaemia have a higher risk of contracting acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL), confirming a prenatal origin of the disease. This association was not true when considering other types of affected first-degree relatives. Children whose fathers were diagnosed with testicular cancer have a higher risk of ALL. Nature Publishing Group 2005-11-28 2005-11-15 /pmc/articles/PMC2361521/ /pubmed/16288301 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6602867 Text en Copyright © 2005 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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Association of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia with cancers in family members
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2361521/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16288301
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6602867
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