Table 3.

Materno–foetal transmission of cancer

Cancer type		Age at diagnosis in offspring	Genetic markers of maternal cells	Reference
Leukaemia/lymphoma:
1.	Lymphosarcoma	birth		[98]
2.	Hodgkin’s disease	3 weeks		[99]
3.	NK cell lymphoma	4 weeks	t(X; 11), XX	[45]
4.	AML	20 months	XX	[50]
5.	ALL	9 months		[100]
6.	ALL	5 months	Karyotype	[101]
7.	B cell lymphoma	8 months	XX	[37]
8.	ALL	11 months	Micro-satellite markers + BCR-ABL1 sequence	[35]
9.	NK/T lymphoma	8 months	Micro-satellite markers	[36]
Melanoma:
10.		8 months		[102]
11.		11 days		[103]
12.		7 weeks		[104]
13.		7 months		[105]
14.		2 months		[51]
15.		birth		[40]
16.		birth		[32]
17.		7 months	XX	[106]
18.		6 months		[38]
19.		3 months		[42]
20.	Lung adenocarcinoma	2 weeks	XX	[44]
21.	SCLC	5 months	XX	[107]
22.	SCLC	5 months		[39]
23.	Lung adenocarcinoma	2 months		[108]
24.	Neuro-endocrine cervical ca.	8 months		[41]
25.	Breast ca.	14 months		[43]
26.	Hepatic ca.	birth		[32]