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ArticleScandinavian journal of work, environment & health2019

Risk of selected childhood cancers and parental employment in painting and printing industries: A register-based case‒control study in Denmark 1968-2015.

Julie Volk, Julia E Heck, Kjeld Schmiegelow, Johnni Hansen

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Article in Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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8citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 27% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Childhood cancer risk in offspring of mothers occupationally exposed to hydrocarbon solvents.European journal of cancer prevention : the official journal of the European Cancer Prevention Organisation (ECP) · 2026
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  7. Five decades of occupational cancer epidemiology.Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Julie VolkThe Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark. julvol@cancer.dk.
Julia E Heck
Kjeld Schmiegelow
Johnni Hansen
Danish Cancer Society · DK

Funding

Maternal comorbidities, prescription drug use in pregnancy and childhood cancerR21CA175959 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI HECK, JULIA · 2014 to 2015
$323k
Parental Occupation and Childhood CancersR03ES021643 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI HECK, JULIA · 2012 to 2013
$152k
NCI NIH HHS R21 CA175959NIEHS NIH HHS R03 ES021643
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Objectives Parental exposures and offspring's risk of cancer have been studied with inconsistent results. We investigated parental employment in painting and printing industries and risk of childhood leukemia, central nervous system (CNS) cancers, and prenatal cancers (acute lymphoblastic leukemia, Wilms tumor, medulloblastoma, neuroblastoma, retinoblastoma, and hepatoblastoma). Methods Using Danish registries, children aged ≤19 years diagnosed from 1968-2015 with leukemia (N=1999), CNS cancers (N=1111) or prenatal cancers (N=2704) were linked to parents and their employment history one year before birth to birth for fathers, and one year before birth to one year after for mothers. Twenty randomly selected controls per case were matched by age and sex. Odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) were estimated using conditional logistic regression. Results For fathers, we found increased risks for acute myeloid leukemia (AML) consistent in painting (OR 2.26, 95% CI 1.07-4.80) and printing industries (OR 2.43, 95% CI 0.94-6.23) and these industries combined (OR 2.10, 95% CI 1.14-3.87). For mothers, increased risks of CNS cancers were found for painting industries (OR 2.34, 95% CI 1.10-4.95) and painting and printing combined (OR 1.97, 95% CI 1.08-3.64). For fathers working in combined industries, the OR for CNS was increased (OR 1.54, 95% CI 1.02-2.31), most prominently in printing industries (OR 2.09, 95% CI 1.17-3.75). Conclusion We observed increased risks of CNS tumors in offspring after parental employment in painting and printing industries. Children of fathers employed in painting and printing industries had a two-fold increase in AML.

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AdolescentAdultCase-Control StudiesChildChild, PreschoolDenmarkFathersFemaleHumansIndustryInfantMaleMaternal ExposureMothersNeoplasmsNervous System Neoplasms

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PMID30838423
PMCPMC6717518
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