Abstract
An analysis of data collected during the course of the Oxford Survey of Childhood Cancer has shown that it is possible to recognize different facets of memory bias without systematic checking of individuals' records, and to make use of the biased data. The position of foetal irradiation in the aetiology of childhood cancers has been re-affirmed, but there is no support for the idea that exposure of parental gonads to diagnostic X-rays is conducive to cancer in the next generation.
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