Early life factors and risk of childhood rhabdomyosarcoma

• Main Authors: Anshu eShrestha (Author), Beate eRitz (Author), Simona eOgnjanovic (Author), Christina A Lombardi (Author), Michelle eWilhelm (Author), Julia eHeck (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2013-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Although little is known about etiology of childhood rhabdomyosarcoma, early life factors are suspected in the etiology. We explored this hypothesis using linked data from the California Cancer Registry and the California birth rolls. Incident cases were 359 children < 6 year old (218 embryonal,...