Relationships between perinatal and maternal characteristics and hepatoblastoma: A report from the UKCCS

P. Ansell, C. D. Mitchell, E. Roman, J. Simpson, J. M. Birch, T. O B Eden

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    Abstract

    Within the context of a national population-based case-control study - the United Kingdom Childhood Cancer Study (UKCCS) - we aimed to explore relationships between perinatal and maternal factors and childhood hepatic tumours, for participants with data available from medical records. 26/28 children with hepatic tumours (22/24 hepatoblastomas, 4/4 hepatocellular carcinomas (HCC)) and 4753 age- and sex-matched controls were included. Polyhydramnios was associated with 0.9% of control pregnancies and 13.6% of case pregnancies (Odds Ratio (OR) = 28.64, 95% Confidence Interval (CI) = 6.94-118.21, P <0.0001); eclampsia or severe pre-eclampsia complicated the pregnancies of 16.7% of mothers whose children developed hepatoblastoma compared with 0.5% of control pregnancies (OR = 52.50, 95% CI = 10.75-257.05, P <0.0001). Three children with hepatoblastoma weighed
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)741-748
    Number of pages7
    JournalEuropean Journal of Cancer
    Volume41
    Issue number5
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Mar 2005

    Keywords

    • Congenital anomalies
    • Hepatoblastoma
    • Low birthweight
    • Polyhydramnios
    • Pre-eclampsia

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