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This study was supported by the Danish Foundation of Child Cancer, the Health Insurance Foundation, the Egmont Foundation and Mikael Goldschmidt Holding A/S.
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Kamper-Jørgensen, M., Woodward, A., Wohlfahrt, J. et al. Childcare in the first 2 years of life reduces the risk of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Leukemia 22, 189–193 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.leu.2404884
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