Risk of individual malignant neoplasms in patients with sickle cell disease: English national record linkage study | Zendy

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Risk of individual malignant neoplasms in patients with sickle cell disease: English national record linkage study

Author(s) -

Olena Seminog,

Oyindamola I Ogunlaja,

David Yeates,

Michael J Goldacre

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

journal of the royal society of medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.38

H-Index - 81

eISSN - 1758-1095

pISSN - 0141-0768

DOI - 10.1177/0141076816651037

Subject(s) - medicine , cohort , cancer , record linkage , rate ratio , population , disease , cohort study , retrospective cohort study , oncology , confidence interval , pediatrics , environmental health

Case reports suggest that there may be an increased risk of some cancers associated with sickle cell disease. However, population-based studies are scarce and there is no comprehensive enumeration of the risks across the whole range of site-specific cancers. Our aim was to provide this.

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