Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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2588487 | International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health | 2014 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
There are few established causes of leukemia, the most common type of cancer in children. Studies in adults suggest a role for specific environmental agents, but little is known about any effect from exposures in pregnancy to toxics in ambient air. In our case–control study, we ascertained 69 cases of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and 46 cases of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) from California Cancer Registry records of children
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Authors
Julia E. Heck, Andrew S. Park, Jiaheng Qiu, Myles Cockburn, Beate Ritz,