Childhood cancer research in Oxford I: the Oxford Survey of Childhood Cancers.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Significant research on the epidemiology and natural history of childhood cancer took place in the Universities of Oxford and Birmingham over sixty years. This is the first of three papers recording this work and describes the Oxford Survey of Childhood Cancers (OSCC), the largest case-control survey of childhood cancer ever undertaken.

Methods

The OSCC studied deaths in Britain from 1953 to 1981. Parents were interviewed and medical records from ante-natal clinics and treatment centres were followed up and abstracted. The survey left Oxford in 1975 and was run subsequently from Birmingham. The data are now being documented and archived to make them available for future study.

Results

Many papers have resulted from this survey, most notably those relating t

SUBMITTER: Bithell JF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6173688 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature