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 language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 741-748 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | European Journal of Cancer |
Volume | 41 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Mar 2005 |
Keywords
- Congenital anomalies
- Hepatoblastoma
- Low birthweight
- Polyhydramnios
- Pre-eclampsia