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Childhood cancer and prenatal environmental exposures - project description
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An international consortium of large birth cohort studies to investigate how different parental characteristics affect the risk of childhood cancers.
Summary
This is an international consortium of large birth cohort studies to investigate how different parental characteristics (age, height, weight, socioeconomic factors), parental health/diseases and lifestyle) , prenatal exposures (including nutritional supplementation, pesticides, dust, radiation and other factors), pregnancy conditions and birth outcomes/birth characteristics and early childhood exposures (lifestyle and other underlying risk factors) affect the risk of childhood cancers.
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Project participants
Project leader
Per Minor Magnus, Norwegian Institute of Public Health
Project participants
Per Minor Magnus, Centre for Fertility and Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health
Paul S Albert, National Cancer Institute
Ana M Ortega-Villa, National Cancer Institute