Childhood cancers and atmospheric carcinogens.

ABSTRACT:

Study objectives

To retest previous findings that childhood cancers are probably initiated by prenatal exposures to combustion process gases and to volatile organic compounds (VOCs); and to identify specific chemical hazards.

Design

Birth and death addresses of fatal child cancers in Great Britain between 1966 and 1980, were linked with high local atmospheric emissions of different chemical species. Among migrant children, distances from each address to the nearest emissions "hotspot" were compared. Excesses of outward over inward migrations show an increased prenatal or early infancy risk.

Setting and subjects

Maps of emissions of many different substances were published on the internet by the National Atmospheric Emissions Inventory and "hotspots" for 2001 were tran

SUBMITTER: Knox EG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1733004 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature