§ Mrs. Renée Short asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what have been the results to date of the Oxford survey of childhood cancer and the research in Birmingham; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg:Results of research conducted by the Oxford survey of childhood cancer, now located in Birmingham, are published in the scientific press as they become available.
Among published results during the period of DHSS financial support have been:
Nephro-blastoma:treatment during 1970–73 and the effect on survival of inclusion in the first Medical Research Council trial [B.M.J. 1979, 2, 567–569]
Bone metastases in childhood rental tumours [Br.J. Cancer (1980) 41, 875]
Childhood cancer in relation to prenatal exposure to chickenpox [Br.J. Cancer (1980) 42, 342]