American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 128, No. 6: 1256-1265
Copyright © 1988 by The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health
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AN EPIDEMIOLOGIC CASE-CONTROL STUDY OF CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMORS IN CHILDREN AND PARENTAL OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURES
1Bureau of Cancer Epidemiology, Division of Epidemiology, New York State Department of Health Albany, NY 12237. (Reprint requests to Dr. Philip C. Nasca.)
2Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, National Cancer Institute Bethesda, MD
3Armed Forces Institute of Pathology Washington, DC
4Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center Lafayette, LA
5Division of Neurosurgery, Albany Medical College Albany, NY
Nasca, P. C. (New York State Department of Health, Albany, NY 12237), M. S. Baptiste, P. A. MacCubbin, B. B. Metzger, K. Carlton, P. Greenwald, V. W. Armbrustmacher, K. M. Earle, and J. Waldman. An epidemiologic case-control study of central nervous system tumors in children and parental occupational exposures. Am J Epidemiol 1988; 128:1256–65.
A population-based case-control study was conducted with 338 patients less than 15 years of age who were diagnosed with a primary tumor of the central nervous system from January 1968 through December 1977 in 53 contiguous New York counties. The study also included 676 controls who were selected from the birth certificate files of the New York State Department of Health. Parental occupational exposures at the time of each child's birth and at the time of tumor diagnosis were derived from maternal interviews. The current data set failed to show any consistent association between childhood central nervous system tumor risk and paternal occupational exposures to hydrocarbons or to electromagnetic fields, or employment in the aerospace industry or pulp and paper manufacturing. Findings for occupational exposures to ionizing radiation were also inconsistent. A positive association was observed between central nervous system tumor risk and paternal exposures to ionizing radiation based on industrial codes. Odds ratios ranged from 1.71 to 2.15. This association was not observed when paternal occupational titles were used to define exposure (range of odds ratios, 1.01–1.10). Maternal exposures to ionizing radiation were not related to risk regardless of the classification scheme used.
central nervous system; child; neoplasms; occupations; parents
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