Prenatal exposure to traffic-related air pollution and risk of early childhood cancers.

ABSTRACT: Exposure to air pollution during pregnancy has been linked to the risk of childhood cancer, but the evidence remains inconclusive. In the present study, we used land use regression modeling to estimate prenatal exposures to traffic exhaust and evaluate the associations with cancer risk in very young children. Participants in the Air Pollution and Childhood Cancers Study who were 5 years of age or younger and diagnosed with cancer between 1988 and 2008 were had their records linked to California birth certificates, and controls were selected from birth certificates. Land use regression-based estimates of exposures to nitric oxide, nitrogen dioxide, and nitrogen oxides were assigned based on birthplace residence and temporally adjusted using routine monitoring station data to evaluate air po

SUBMITTER: Ghosh JK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3792733 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature