Risk of Cancer following Blood Transfusion from Donors with Subclinical Cancer
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1 Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden 2 Department of Epidemiology Research, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark 3 Department of Clinical Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden 4 Department of Clinical Immunology, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark 5 Department of Medicine, Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden 6 Department of Clinical Immunology, Århus University Hospital, Århus, Denmark. 7 Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA 8 Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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