A statistical study of the first 5,763 deaths covered by the Oxford Survey of Childhood Cancers showed that the number of twin-born cases was below expectation and that this applied especially to members of like-sex pairs. This may reflect prenatal selection against embryos (especially males) with a disposition to develop cancer in childhood.
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