ArticleBritish journal of cancer2002
Childhood solid tumours in relation to infections in the community in Cumbria during pregnancy and around the time of birth.
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- Space-time clustering of childhood central nervous system tumours in Yorkshire, UK.BMC cancer · 2012Article
- Infectious exposure in the first years of life and risk of central nervous system tumours in children: analysis of birth order, childcare attendance and seasonality of birth.British journal of cancer · 2010Article
- Season of birth and risk for adult onset glioma.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2010Review
- Seasonality of birth in children with central nervous system tumours in Denmark, 1970-2003.British journal of cancer · 2009Article
- Space-time clustering of glioma cannot be attributed to specific histological subgroups.European journal of epidemiology · 2006Article
- Measles virus: evidence of an association with Hodgkin's disease.British journal of cancer · 2004Article
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Abstract
In a retrospective cohort study of all 99 976 live births in Cumbria, 1975-1992, we investigated whether higher levels of community infections during the mother's pregnancy and in early life were risk factors for solid tumours (brain/spinal and other tumours), diagnosed 1975-1993 under age 15 years. Logistic regression was used to relate risk to incidence of community infections in three prenatal and two postnatal quarters. There was an increased risk of brain/spinal tumours among children exposed around or soon after birth to higher levels of community infections, in particular measles (OR for trend=2.1, 95%CI : 1.3-3.6, P=0.008) and influenza (OR for exposure=3.3, 95%CI : 1.5-7.4, P=0.005). There was some evidence of an association between exposure to infections around and soon after birth and risk of other tumours, but this may have been a chance finding. The findings are consistent with other recent epidemiological studies suggesting brain tumours may be associated with perinatal exposure to infections.
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