Prenatal pesticide exposure and neuroblastoma - A statewide case-control study in California.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Previous studies investigating neuroblastoma risk and parental pesticide exposure have had mixed findings, with some evidence linking maternal occupational or residential exposure to increased risk. However, most assessed pesticides broadly rather than evaluating specific compounds. To our knowledge, no studies have examined ambient residential exposure to individual pesticides and neuroblastoma risk.

Objective

To evaluate associations between childhood neuroblastoma and prenatal exposure to specific pesticides through residential proximity to agricultural applications.

Methods

We identified neuroblastoma cases from the California Cancer Registry and cancer-free controls from birth certificates. Analyses were restricted to children born 1998-2016 whose moth

SUBMITTER: Van Deventer D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12707227 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature