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ArticleBritish journal of cancer2018

Childhood cancer research in Oxford I: the Oxford Survey of Childhood Cancers.

J F Bithell, G J Draper, T Sorahan, C A Stiller

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Article in British journal of cancer, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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J F BithellDepartment of Statistics, University of Oxford, 24-29 St Giles', Oxford, OX1 3LB, UK. john.bithell@spc.ox.ac.uk.
G J DraperDepartment of Statistics, University of Oxford, 24-29 St Giles', Oxford, OX1 3LB, UK.
T SorahanInstitute of Applied Health Research, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK.
C A StillerNational Cancer Registration and Analysis Service, Public Health England, 4150 Chancellor Court, Oxford, OX4 2GX, UK.

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6 · The paper itself

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backgroundSignificant research on the epidemiology and natural history of childhood cancer took place in the Universities of Oxford and Birmingham over sixty years. This is the first of three papers recording this work and describes the Oxford Survey of Childhood Cancers (OSCC), the largest case-control survey of childhood cancer ever undertaken.

methodsThe OSCC studied deaths in Britain from 1953 to 1981. Parents were interviewed and medical records from ante-natal clinics and treatment centres were followed up and abstracted. The survey left Oxford in 1975 and was run subsequently from Birmingham. The data are now being documented and archived to make them available for future study.

resultsMany papers have resulted from this survey, most notably those relating to the association first reported therein between childhood cancer and ante-natal X-raying. This paper is a historical review of the OSCC.

conclusionsIn spite of many analyses of the study, this historic data set has continuing value because of the large number of examples of some very rare tumours and the detailed clinical and family history data that are available; and also because of the possibility of carrying out new analyses to investigate emerging research issues.

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Biomedical ResearchCase-Control StudiesChildFemaleHumansNeoplasmsNeoplasms, Radiation-InducedPregnancyPrenatal Exposure Delayed EffectsRegistriesRisk FactorsUnited Kingdom

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PMCPMC6173688

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