Trial reportBritish journal of cancer2008
Birth weight and melanoma risk: a population-based case-control study.
Trial report in British journal of cancer, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Birth weight and adult cancer incidence: large prospective study and meta-analysis.Annals of oncology : official journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology · 2014Pooled it
- Childhood Body Size and the Risk of Malignant Melanoma in Adulthood.American journal of epidemiology · 2017Article
- Season of birth and other perinatal risk factors for melanoma.International journal of epidemiology · 2014Article
- Birth characteristics and childhood carcinomas.British journal of cancer · 2011Article
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Abstract
We investigated whether lower birth weight was associated with lower risk of melanoma later in life. This population-based case-control study included all incident cases of histologically verified invasive melanoma diagnosed until 31 December 2003 in the Norwegian population born between 1967 and 1986 (n=709). The control group without malignant disease was established by random sampling from the same source population as the cases (n=108 209). Data on birth weight, gender, mother's residence and parental age at the time of birth were collected from the Medical Birth Registry of Norway and data on cancer from the Cancer Registry of Norway. The Mantel-Haenszel test of linear trend showed no trend in risk across the birth weight categories: individuals in the highest quartile of birth weight (>or=3860 g) had an odds ratio (OR) of 1.19 (95% confidence interval, CI: 0.77-1.84) compared to individuals with birth weight <2500 g. The adjusted OR was 0.81 (95% CI: 0.52-1.26) for birth weight below 2500 g (exposed). Though not statistically significant, the results suggest that low birth weight might influence the risk of melanoma later in life.
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