Parental Occupational Exposures and Risk of Childhood Cancer
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Parental occupational exposures and risk of childhood cancer.
Occupational exposures of parents might be related to cancer in their offspring. Forty-eight published studies on this topic have reported relative risks for over 1000 specific occupation/cancer combinations. Virtually all of the studies employed the case-control design. Occupations and exposures of fathers were investigated much more frequently than those of the mother. Information about paren...
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عنوان ژورنال: Environmental Health Perspectives
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0091-6765
DOI: 10.2307/3434208