ArticleArchives of disease in childhood1987
Height at diagnosis of malignancies.
Article in Archives of disease in childhood, 1987. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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11 citing papers in PubMed.
- Differences in Childhood Growth Parameters Between Patients With Somatic and Heritable Retinoblastoma.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2024Article
- Relationship between height and osteosarcoma at the time of diagnosis in the Indian population: A retrospective study.Journal of clinical orthopaedics and trauma · 2021Article
- Germline and somatic genetics of osteosarcoma - connecting aetiology, biology and therapy.Nature reviews. Endocrinology · 2017Review
- Association between height and malignancy among children in the north of Iran.Iranian journal of pediatric hematology and oncology · 2015Article
- Body size and risk of Hodgkin's lymphoma by age and gender: a population-based case-control study in Connecticut and Massachusetts.Cancer causes & control : CCC · 2013Article
- Breed-specific incidence rates of canine primary bone tumors--a population based survey of dogs in Norway.Canadian journal of veterinary research = Revue canadienne de recherche veterinaire · 2011Article
- Height at diagnosis and birth-weight as risk factors for osteosarcoma.Cancer causes & control : CCC · 2011Article
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- Is There a Predisposition Gene for Ewing's Sarcoma?Journal of oncology · 2010Article
- Body size, recreational physical activity, and B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma risk among women in the California teachers study.American journal of epidemiology · 2009Article
- Perinatal factors, growth and development, and osteosarcoma risk.British journal of cancer · 2006Article
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Abstract
Studies of the presenting height of children with malignancies have produced conflicting results, from an excess of taller patients to an excess of shorter patients. The problems of measurement bias, inadequate comparison populations, small numbers of patients, subgroup analyses, and overreliance on simple significance tests are all possible reasons for the variation in results. To clarify this issue, we studied heights at diagnosis of 3657 children and adolescents aged under 18 years. Their malignancies included acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease, acute non-lymphoblastic leukaemia, osteosarcoma, retinoblastoma, neuroblastoma, Wilms' tumour, rhabdomyosarcoma, and Ewing's sarcoma. Compared with published standards for the heights of children in control populations, no significant deviation from population norms was found for patients in any of the 10 disease categories after proper adjustment for multiple significance testing.
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