Neonatal Phototherapy and Infantile Cancer

• Published in: Pediatrics (Evanston) Vol. 137; no. 6
• Main Authors: Wickremasinghe, Andrea C, Kuzniewicz, Michael W, Grimes, Barbara A, McCulloch, Charles E, Newman, Thomas B
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.06.2016
• Subjects: Bilirubin - blood; Birth Certificates; California - epidemiology; Death Certificates; Female; Hospital Records; Humans; Hyperbilirubinemia, Neonatal - therapy; Infant; Infant, Newborn; Logistic Models; Male; Multivariate Analysis; Neoplasms - epidemiology; Neoplasms - etiology; Phototherapy - adverse effects; Propensity Score

To determine whether neonatal phototherapy is associated with cancer in the first year after birth. We analyzed a data set from the California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development that was created by linking birth certificates, death certificates, and hospital discharge abstracts up t...