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SUBMITTER: Heck JE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7577564 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Heck Julia E JE Lee Pei-Chen PC Wu Chia-Kai CK Li Chung-Yi CY He Di D Federman Noah N Yu Fei F Olsen Jorn J Ritz Beate B Arah Onyebuchi A OA Hansen Johnni J
Pediatric hematology and oncology 20200504 7
Spina bifida has been reported to co-occur with pediatric cancer, but comprehensive evaluations remained elusive. We investigated this co-occurrence in two large, population-based studies in Taiwan (N = 1900 cancer cases, 2,077,137 controls) and Denmark (N = 5508 cases, 137,700 controls). Analyses in Denmark were restricted to the period before prenatal diagnostics became available (2004) and pregnancy terminations of fetuses with birth defects became more common. Using national patient and canc ...[more]