Schüz J, Martinussen N, Lightfoot T, Roman E, Winther JF. Molar pregnancy and childhood cancer: a population-based linkage study from Denmark.
Br J Cancer 2007;
97:986-8. [PMID:
17700569 PMCID:
PMC2360428 DOI:
10.1038/sj.bjc.6603931]
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Abstract
We observed a relative risk of 1.40 (95% confidence interval; 0.86-2.16) for cancers diagnosed under the age 20 in 6192 offspring of 3431 mothers with a molar pregnancy, indicating it is not a major determinant of childhood cancer.
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