Childhood cancer and prenatal environmental exposures
Project
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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.
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
About the project
Start
01.06.2009
End
31.12.2029
Status
Active
Approvals
Regional committees for medical and health research ethics
Project owner/ Project manager
Norwegian Institute of Public Health