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Editorial
. 2023 Jun 1;4(2):173-175.
doi: 10.3390/epidemiologia4020018.

More Children Means More Tumours? We Can Do More to Protect the Health of Our Kids-A Call for a New Epidemiology That Can Change the World

Prisco Piscitelli  1   2 , Alessandro Miani  3   4 , Enrico Greco  3 , Alessandro Distante  5 , Francesco Schittulli  6 , Adele Civino  7
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More Children Means More Tumours? We Can Do More to Protect the Health of Our Kids-A Call for a New Epidemiology That Can Change the World

Prisco Piscitelli et al. Epidemiologia (Basel). .

Abstract

In encyclopaedic dictionaries published until 1955, the word "tumour" was defined as an "occupational disease suffered by the workers of chemical industries", thus referring to a very specific cause [...].

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All authors declare no conflict of interest for this manuscript.

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