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dc.contributor.authorUK Childhood Cancer Study Investigators
dc.contributor.authorEden, Tim O B
dc.contributor.authorHowell, Sacha J
dc.contributor.authorGattamaneni, Rao
dc.date.accessioned2009-11-18T11:55:46Z
dc.date.available2009-11-18T11:55:46Z
dc.date.issued2000-03
dc.identifier.citationThe United Kingdom Childhood Cancer Study: objectives, materials and methods. UK Childhood Cancer Study Investigators. 2000, 82 (5):1073-102 Br. J. Canceren
dc.identifier.issn0007-0920
dc.identifier.pmid10737392
dc.identifier.doi10.1054/bjoc.1999.1045
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10541/86393
dc.description.abstractAn investigation into the possible causes of childhood cancer has been carried out throughout England, Scotland and Wales over the period 1991-1998. All children known to be suffering from one or other type of the disease over periods of 4-5 years have been included, and control children matched for sex, age and area of residence have been selected at random from population registers. Information about both groups of children (with and without cancer) has been obtained from parental questionnaires, general practitioners' and hospital records, and from measurement of the extent of exposure to radon gas, terrestrial gamma radiation, and electric and magnetic fields. Samples of blood have also been obtained from the affected children and their parents and stored. Altogether 3,838 children with cancer, including 1,736 with leukaemia, and 7,629 unaffected children have been studied. Detailed accounts are given of the nature of the information obtained in sections describing the general methodology of the study, the measurement of exposure to ionizing and non-ionizing radiation, the classification of solid tumours and leukaemias, and the biological material available for genetic analysis.
dc.language.isoenen
dc.subjectLeukaemiaen
dc.subjectCanceren
dc.subject.meshAdolescent
dc.subject.meshAlgorithms
dc.subject.meshChild
dc.subject.meshChild, Preschool
dc.subject.meshData Collection
dc.subject.meshFemale
dc.subject.meshGamma Rays
dc.subject.meshGenetic Predisposition to Disease
dc.subject.meshGreat Britain
dc.subject.meshHumans
dc.subject.meshInfant
dc.subject.meshInfant, Newborn
dc.subject.meshLeukemia
dc.subject.meshMagnetics
dc.subject.meshMale
dc.subject.meshNeoplasms
dc.subject.meshRadon
dc.subject.meshRegistries
dc.titleThe United Kingdom Childhood Cancer Study: objectives, materials and methods. UK Childhood Cancer Study Investigators.en
dc.typeArticleen
dc.identifier.journalBritish Journal of Canceren
html.description.abstractAn investigation into the possible causes of childhood cancer has been carried out throughout England, Scotland and Wales over the period 1991-1998. All children known to be suffering from one or other type of the disease over periods of 4-5 years have been included, and control children matched for sex, age and area of residence have been selected at random from population registers. Information about both groups of children (with and without cancer) has been obtained from parental questionnaires, general practitioners' and hospital records, and from measurement of the extent of exposure to radon gas, terrestrial gamma radiation, and electric and magnetic fields. Samples of blood have also been obtained from the affected children and their parents and stored. Altogether 3,838 children with cancer, including 1,736 with leukaemia, and 7,629 unaffected children have been studied. Detailed accounts are given of the nature of the information obtained in sections describing the general methodology of the study, the measurement of exposure to ionizing and non-ionizing radiation, the classification of solid tumours and leukaemias, and the biological material available for genetic analysis.


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