First-born twin has a higher risk of acute leukemia in a population-based assessment of cancer in twins in California, and lower than anticipated rate of twin …

EM Nickels, N Zhou, JL Wiemels - medRxiv, 2024 - medrxiv.org
We assessed cancer concordance, cancer incidence in the healthy twin of cancer probands,
and cancer risk in relation to birth order in pediatric and adolescent/young adult twins via a …

Birth characteristics and the risk of childhood brain tumors: A case–control study in Ontario, Canada

S Cheng, JR McLaughlin, MC Brown, J Rutka… - International Journal of … - Wiley Online Library
Various birth characteristics may influence healthy childhood development, including the
risk of developing childhood brain tumors (CBTs). In this study, we aimed to investigate the …