Cancer Epidemiology
Volume 33, Issue 5 , Pages 363-367 , November 2009

Birth weight, sex and childhood cancer: A report from the United Kingdom Childhood Cancer Study

,Accepted 22 October 2009.

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Cancer Epidemiology
Volume 33, Issue 5 , Pages 363-367 , November 2009

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