ArticleBritish journal of cancer2010
Parental educational attainment as an indicator of socioeconomic status and risk of childhood cancers.
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- Socioeconomic status and childhood central nervous system tumors in California.Cancer causes & control : CCC · 2021Article
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- Air pollution exposure at the residence and risk of childhood cancers in Denmark: A nationwide register-based case-control study.EClinicalMedicine · 2020Article
- Socioeconomic differences in the risk of childhood central nervous system tumors in Denmark: a nationwide register-based case-control study.Cancer causes & control : CCC · 2020Article
- Positive Parenting Moderates the Effect of Socioeconomic Status on Executive Functioning: A Three-Generation Approach.Journal of child and family studies · 2019Article
- Association of In Vitro Fertilization With Childhood Cancer in the United States.JAMA pediatrics · 2019Article
- Association between tooth loss and upper gastrointestinal cancer: A 30-year follow-up of the Linxian Dysplasia Nutrition Intervention Trial Cohort.Thoracic cancer · 2019Article
- Socioeconomic Disadvantage across the Life Course Is Associated with Diet Quality in Young Adulthood.Nutrients · 2019Article
- Social Inequalities Along the Childhood Cancer Continuum: An Overview of Evidence and a Conceptual Framework to Identify Underlying Mechanisms and Pathways.Frontiers in public health · 2019Review
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Abstract
backgroundLittle has been reported on socioeconomic (SES) patterns of risk for most forms of childhood cancer.
methodsPopulation-based case-control data from epidemiological studies of childhood cancer conducted in five US states were pooled and associations of maternal, paternal and household educational attainment with childhood cancers were analysed. Odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals were estimated using logistic regression, controlling for confounders.
resultsAlthough there was no association with parental education for the majority of cancers evaluated, there was an indication of a positive association with lower education for Hodgkin's and Burkitt's lymphoma and Wilm's tumour, with the ORs ranging from 1.5 to >3.0 times that of more educated parents. A possible protective effect was seen for lower parental education and astrocytoma and hepatoblastoma, with ORs reduced by 30 to 40%.
conclusionsThese study results should be viewed as exploratory because of the broad nature of the SES assessment, but they give some indication that childhood cancer studies might benefit from a more thorough assessment of SES.
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