Childhood cancer and environmental contaminants.

ELECTRICAL WIRING CONFIGURATIONS AND CHILDHOOD CANCER

1979 • 1,642 citations

Thyroid Cancer after Exposure to External Radiation: A Pooled Analysis of Seven Studies

2012 • 1,120 citations

The international incidence of childhood cancer

1988 • 984 citations

CASE-CONTROL STUDY OF CHILDHOOD CANCER AND EXPOSURE TO 60-HZ MAGNETIC FIELDS

1988 • 714 citations

Magnetic Fields and Cancer in Children Residing Near Swedish High-voltage Power Lines

1993 • 521 citations

Exposure to Residential Electric and Magnetic Fields and Risk of Childhood Leukemia

1991 • 460 citations

Paternal Cigarette Smoking and the Risk of Childhood Cancer Among Offspring of Nonsmoking Mothers

1997 • 429 citations

Residential Exposure to Magnetic Fields and Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in Children

1997 • 419 citations

EVIDENCE FOR AN INFECTIVE CAUSE OF CHILDHOOD LEUKAEMIA: COMPARISON OF A SCOTTISH NEW TOWN WITH NUCLEAR REPROCESSING SITES IN BRITAIN

1988 • 393 citations

Speculations on the cause of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

1988 • 371 citations

Childhood cancer, intramuscular vitamin K, and pethidine given during labour.

1992 • 344 citations

Trends in cancer incidence among children in the U.S.

1996 • 325 citations

N-Nitroso compounds and childhood brain tumors: a case-control study.

1982 • 316 citations

A population-based case-control study of childhood leukemia in shanghai

1988 • 295 citations

Pre-natal irradiation and childhood malignancy: a review of British data from the Oxford Survey

1975 • 292 citations

Geographic and ethnic variations in the incidence of childhood cancer

1996 • 291 citations

Pesticides and childhood cancers.

1997 • 272 citations

Follow-up Study of Patients Treated by X-ray Epilation for Tinea Capitis

1976 • 271 citations

Residence near high voltage facilities and risk of cancer in children.

1993 • 252 citations

Childhood Leukemia and Parents' Occupational and Home Exposures<xref ref-type="fn" rid="FN2">2</xref>

1987 • 240 citations

Factors associated with childhood cancer in a national cohort study

1990 • 231 citations

Risk of cancer in Finnish children living close to power lines.

1993 • 231 citations

Occupational exposures of parents of children with acute nonlymphocytic leukemia: a report from the Childrens Cancer Study Group.

1989 • 227 citations

RADIATION INDUCED NEOPLASIA FOLLOWING EXTERNAL BEAM THERAPY FOR CHILDREN WITH RETINOBLASTOMA

1969 • 222 citations

INFANT FEEDING AND CHILDHOOD CANCER

1988 • 220 citations

Parental Alcohol Consumption, Cigarette Smoking, and Risk of Infant Leukemia: a Childrens Cancer Group Study

1996 • 213 citations

RISK FACTORS FOR BRAIN TUMORS IN CHILDREN

1979 • 199 citations

Evidence from population mixing in British New Towns 1946-85 of an infective basis for childhood leukaemia

1990 • 198 citations

Cancer in offspring of parents engaged in agricultural activities in Norway: Incidence and risk factors in the farm environment

1996 • 192 citations

Prenatal Exposure to Parents' Smoking and Childhood Cancer

1991 • 190 citations

Gestational and familial risk factors for childhood astrocytoma: results of a case-control study.

1990 • 190 citations

Maternal drug use and risk of childhood nonlymphoblastic leukemia among offspring. An epidemiologic investigation implicating marijuana (a report from the childrens cancer study group)

1989 • 189 citations

Home pesticide use and childhood cancer: a case-control study.

1995 • 188 citations

Parental occupation and childhood cancer: review of epidemiologic studies.

1990 • 171 citations

Paternal exposure not to blame

1994 • 171 citations

Investigation of the possible increased incidence of cancer in West Cumbria

1984 • 164 citations

International Incidence of Childhood Brain and Spinal Tumours

1994 • 163 citations

Risk factors for astrocytic glioma and primitive neuroectodermal tumor of the brain in young children: a report from the Children's Cancer Group.

1994 • 162 citations

Electromagnetic Fields and Cancer in Children Residing Near Norwegian High-Voltage Power Lines

1997 • 160 citations

Occupation of father at time of birth of children dying of malignant diseases

1974 • 158 citations

Childhood cancer and parental use of tobacco: deaths from 1953 to 1955

1997 • 156 citations

Medical and drug risk factors associated with neuroblastoma: a case-control study.

1987 • 153 citations

An exploratory case-control study of brain tumors in children.

1989 • 145 citations

The inter-regional epidemiological study of childhood cancer (IRESCC): a case control study of aetiological factors in leukaemia and lymphoma.

1987 • 142 citations

Parental Occupation and Other Environmental Factors in the Etiology of Leukemias and Non-Hodgkin'S Lymphomas in Childhood: A Case-Control Study

1990 • 142 citations

Possible health effects of exposure to residential electric and magnetic fields

1997 • 141 citations

Follow up study of children born to mothers resident in Seascale, West Cumbria (birth cohort).

1987 • 141 citations

Are Maternal Fertility Problems Related to Childhood Leukaemia?

1985 • 140 citations

Environmental Factors in the Etiology of Rhabdomyosarcoma in Childhood<xref ref-type="fn" rid="FN2">2</xref><xref ref-type="fn" rid="FN3">3</xref>

1982 • 137 citations

A case-control study of risk factors for hepatoblastoma. A report from the childrens cancer study group

1989 • 137 citations

Maternal and perinatal risk factors for childhood leukemia.

1991 • 129 citations

Cured and broiled meat consumption in relation to childhood cancer: Denver, Colorado (United States)

1994 • 126 citations

Childhood cancer and parental occupation in Finland.

1981 • 124 citations

Family pesticide use and childhood brain cancer

1993 • 122 citations

Maternal diet and risk of astrocytic glioma in children: a report from the Childrens Cancer Group (United States and Canada)

1994 • 122 citations

NEUROBLASTOMA AND PATERNAL OCCUPATION A CASE-CONTROL ANALYSIS

1985 • 120 citations

Brain Tumors in Children and Occupational Exposure of Parents

1981 • 118 citations

Paternal radiation exposure and leukaemia in offspring: the Ontario case-control study.

1993 • 115 citations

CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA AND PARENTAL OCCUPATION

1985 • 115 citations

Childhood leukaemia in the West Berkshire and Basingstoke and North Hampshire District Health Authorities in relation to nuclear establishments in the vicinity.

1987 • 114 citations

Age of exposure to infections and risk of childhood leukaemia.

1993 • 114 citations

Rural population mixing and childhood leukaemia: effects of the North Sea oil industry in Scotland, including the area near Dounreay nuclear site.

1993 • 114 citations

Pre- and postconception factors associated with sporadic heritable and nonheritable retinoblastoma.

1989 • 113 citations

A review of the epidemiologic literature on magnetic fields and cancer.

1988 • 112 citations

Reported Influenza in Pregnancy and Subsequent Cancer in the Child

1972 • 112 citations

METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES IN THE EPIDEMIOLOGY OF ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS AND CANCER

1989 • 111 citations

RISK OF CANCER AMONG CHILDREN EXPOSED IN UTERO TO A-BOMB RADIATIONS, 1950-84

1988 • 109 citations

CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES IN THE FIRST YEAR OF LIFE: A REGISTER-BASED CASE-CONTROL STUDY

1986 • 108 citations

Antenatal risk factors for malignant brain tumours in new south wales children

1994 • 107 citations

Processed meats and risk of childhood leukemia (California, USA)

1994 • 107 citations

Cigarette smoking and alcohol consumption by parents of children with acute myeloid leukemia: an analysis within morphological subgroups--a report from the Childrens Cancer Group.

1993 • 102 citations

ASSOCIATION OF CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA WITH MATERNAL AGE, BIRTH ORDER, AND PATERNAL OCCUPATION

1984 • 100 citations

Childhood Leukemias Associated with Fallout from Nuclear Testing

1979 • 99 citations

Ewing's Bone Sarcoma, Paternal Occupational Exposure, and Other Factors

1992 • 98 citations

Pregnancy x-rays and childhood cancers: effects of exposure age and radiation dose

1988 • 97 citations

Maternal Smoking in Pregnancy: Does it Increase the Risk of Childhood Cancer?

1992 • 96 citations

NEUROBLASTOMA AND PARENTAL OCCUPATION

1990 • 95 citations

Childhood leukemia and electromagnetic fields: results of a population-based case-control study in Germany.

1997 • 94 citations

PARENTAL OCCUPATION AND INTRACRANIAL NEOPLASMS OF CHILDHOOD: RESULTS OF A CASE-CONTROL INTERVIEW STUDY

1990 • 93 citations

Parental occupations of children with leukaemia in west Cumbria, north Humberside, and Gateshead.

1991 • 92 citations

Occupations of fathers of patients with Wilms's tumour.

1979 • 92 citations

Residential proximity to electricity transmission and distribution equipment and risk of childhood leukemia, childhood lymphoma, and childhood nervous system tumors: systematic review, evaluation, and meta-analysis

1994 • 92 citations

Epidemiology of the Childhood Acute Leukemias

1988 • 90 citations

Benign and Malignant Thyroid Neoplasms After Childhood Irradiation for Tinea Capitis<xref ref-type="fn" rid="FN2">2</xref><xref ref-type="fn" rid="FN3">3</xref>

1980 • 90 citations

Paternal occupation and brain cancer in offspring: A mortality‐based case‐control study

1988 • 90 citations

Los Angeles Study of Residential Magnetic Fields and Childhood Brain Tumors

1996 • 90 citations

Childhood cancer and parental use of alcohol and tobacco

1995 • 87 citations

Childhood cancer and occupational radiation exposure in parents

1984 • 86 citations

An exploratory study of environmental and medical factors potentially related to childhood cancer

1991 • 85 citations

Paternal preconceptional radiation exposure in the nuclear industry and leukaemia and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in young people in Scotland.

1993 • 85 citations

Perinatal and early postnatal risk factors for malignant brain tumours in New South Wales children

1994 • 84 citations

Parental employment at time of conception and risk of cancer in offspring

1991 • 84 citations

Risk factors for childhood acute non-lymphocytic leukemia: an association with maternal alcohol consumption during pregnancy?

1994 • 84 citations

Risk factors for Wilms tumor: Report from the national Wilms tumor study

1993 • 83 citations

The Association Between Parental Occupation and Childhood Malignancy

1980 • 82 citations

Exposure to extremely low frequency electromagnetic fields and the risk of malignant diseases — an evaluation of epidemiological and experimental findings

1995 • 80 citations

Parental Exposures to Pesticides and Risk of Wilms' Tumor in Brazil

1995 • 79 citations

An exploratory analysis of risk factors for childhood malignant germ-cell tumors: report from the Childrens Cancer Group (Canada, United States)

1995 • 78 citations

Parental occupation, occupational exposure to solvents and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and risk of childhood brain tumors (Italy, France, Spain)

1997 • 77 citations

Parental Smoking and Risk of Childhood Brain Tumors

1993 • 76 citations

Chernobyl, 10 Years After: Health Consequences

1997 • 75 citations

PATERNAL OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE TO ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS AND NEUROBLASTOMA IN OFFSPRING

1990 • 75 citations

A CASE-CONTROL STUDY OF OSTEOSARCOMA IN YOUNG PERSONS

1987 • 74 citations

Contacts between adults as evidence for an infective origin of childhood leukaemia: an explanation for the excess near nuclear establishments in west Berkshire?

1991 • 74 citations

Parental occupational exposures and risk of childhood cancer: A review

1991 • 73 citations

Occupations of fathers of children dying from neoplasms.

1981 • 73 citations

Cancer in the offspring of fathers in hydrocarbon-related occupations.

1976 • 72 citations

Increased Risk of Brain Tumors in Children Exposed to Barbiturates<xref ref-type="fn" rid="FN1">2</xref>

1978 • 72 citations

AN EPIDEMIOLOGIC CASE-CONTROL STUDY OF CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMORS IN CHILDREN AND PARENTAL OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURES

1988 • 69 citations

Influence of the Mother's Prenatal Drug Consumption on Risk of Neuroblastoma in the Child

1992 • 69 citations

A case-control study of non-T cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia of children in Hokkaido, Japan.

1989 • 67 citations

Parental occupation and childhood astrocytoma: results of a case-control study.

1992 • 67 citations

Malignant Disease in Children whose Mothers had Chickenpox, Mumps, or Rubella in Pregnancy

1972 • 66 citations

Association between Malignant Disease in Children and Maternal Virus Infections

1973 • 65 citations

Trends in childhood leukaemia in the Nordic countries in relation to fallout from atmospheric nuclear weapons testing.

1992 • 63 citations

CANCER IN CHILDREN OF PARENTS EXPOSED TO HYDROCARBON-RELATED INDUSTRIES AND OCCUPATIONS

1980 • 63 citations

MATERNAL SMOKING DURING PREGNANCY AND THE RISK OF CHILDHOOD CANCER

1986 • 61 citations

Risk factors for childhood brain tumors.

1993 • 61 citations

Mothers' active and passive smoking during pregnancy and risk of brain tumours in children

1994 • 59 citations

The Inter-Regional Epidemiological Study of Childhood Cancer (IRESCC): case control study of children with bone and soft tissue sarcomas

1988 • 56 citations

Parental occupation and Wilms' tumor: results of a case-control study.

1989 • 56 citations

A case-control study of the etiology of Ewing's sarcoma.

1992 • 54 citations

Perinatal and early postnatal risk factors for malignant brain tumours in New South Wales children.

1994 • 53 citations

The inter-regional epidemiological study of childhood cancer (IRESCC): Case-control study of children with central nervous system tumours

1990 • 52 citations

CHILDHOOD NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMORS—AN EVALUATION OF THE ASSOCIATION WITH PATERNAL OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE TO HYDROCARBONS

1987 • 51 citations

Paternal occupation and Wilms' tumour in offspring.

1984 • 50 citations

Association between Influenza during Pregnancy and Childhood Leukaemia

1973 • 50 citations

Use of a job-exposure matrix to evaluate parental occupation and childhood cancer

1992 • 49 citations

Space-time clustering of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia: indirect evidence for a transmissible agent

1992 • 49 citations

Long term effects of exposure to viral infections in utero.

1985 • 47 citations

Childhood leukaemia around the La Hague nuclear waste reprocessing plant.

1990 • 45 citations

Occupational Exposures Among Fathers of Children with Wilms?? Tumor

1984 • 45 citations

Incidence of Neoplasms in Children Born after Influenza Epidemics

1972 • 44 citations

Epstein-Barr virus and Burkitt's lymphoma worldwide: the causal relationship revisited.

1985 • 44 citations

Childhood cancers and their association with pregnancy drugs and illnesses

1989 • 44 citations

Parental occupations and cancer: a review of the literature.

1986 • 43 citations

The Inter-Regional Epidemiological Study of Childhood Cancer (IRESCC): past medical history in children with cancer.

1988 • 43 citations

Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia among Spanish children and mothers' occupation: a case-control study.

1991 • 42 citations

Update on Methodological Issues in the Epidemiology of Electromagnetic Fields and Cancer

1993 • 40 citations

Malignancies in German Thorotrast Patients and Estimated Tissue Dose

1978 • 40 citations

Cancer in young people in the north of England, 1968-85: analysis by census wards.

1993 • 37 citations

Infant leukemia and paternal exposure to motor vehicle exhaust fumes.

1984 • 35 citations

Childhood brain tumors and paternal occupation in the aerospace industry.

1986 • 35 citations

Efficacy of BCG Vaccination in Prevention of Cancer: An Update: Brief Communication 2

1978 • 33 citations

Leukaemia in young persons in Scotland: a study of its geographical distribution and relationship to nuclear installations.

1987 • 31 citations

Maternal Exposure to N-Nitrosatable Drugs as a Risk Factor for Childhood Brain Tumours

1995 • 28 citations

INFLUENZA DURING PREGNANCY IN RELATION TO SUBSEQUENT CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA

1974 • 26 citations

EXCESS LEUKEMIA IN COHORTS OF CHILDREN BORN FOLLOWING INFLUENZA EPIDEMICS

1975 • 26 citations

Brain Cancer and Leukemia and Exposure to Power-Frequency (50- to 60-Hz) Electric and Magnetic Fields

1997 • 24 citations

Immunizations against infectious diseases and childhood cancers

1986 • 23 citations

Exposure to barbiturates in utero and during childhood risk of intracranial and spinal cord tumors.

1990 • 23 citations

Efficacy of BCG Vaccination in Prevention of Cancer<xref ref-type="fn" rid="fn2">2</xref>

1975 • 19 citations

N-nitroso compounds and human intracranial tumours.

1984 • 18 citations

Osteosarcoma associated with thorotrast administration. Report of two cases and literature review

1978 • 17 citations

Childhood cancer in relation to prenatal exposure to chickenpox

1980 • 17 citations

Inter-Regional Epidemiological Study of Childhood Cancer (IRESCC): Childhood cancer and the consumption of Debendox and related drugs in pregnancy

1985 • 17 citations

Childhood tumors and parental occupational exposures

1984 • 12 citations

Potential risk factors for brain tumors in children

1990 • 11 citations

The pattern of childhood and related adult malignancies near Kingston-upon-Hull

1991 • 10 citations

Problems and priorities in epidemiologic research on human health effects related to wiring code and electric and magnetic fields.

1993 • 8 citations

Uses of a cancer registry in the assessment of occupational cancer risks.

1985 • 5 citations

Childhood cancer, intramuscular vitamin K, and pethidine given during labor

1993 • 3 citations