NDLI: Childhood Cancer and Social Contact: the Role of Paternal Occupation (United Kingdom)*

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Author	Fear, Nicola T. Simpson, Jill Roman, Eve
Copyright Year	2005
Abstract	Objective: To investigate the relationship between childhood cancer (particularly leukaemia) and paternal occupational social contact (a proxy for potential exposure to infections) using the UK Childhood Cancer Study.Methods: Using a national population-based case–control study, self-reported occupational data from fathers of 3596 children diagnosed with cancer between 1991 and 1996 under 15 years of age (cases) and fathers of 7011 children without cancer (controls) were analysed. Associations were assessed using odds ratios (OR) calculated by time of exposure (birth, diagnosis), diagnostic group (all cancers, leukaemia, acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL), central nervous system tumours, other cancers), level of occupational social contact (high, medium, low), urban–rural status at diagnosis and occupational title.Results: From 371 occupations, 75 (20%) were classified as having high levels of occupational social contact, 31 (8%) as medium and the remaining 265 (71%) as low. No associations were apparent for fathers’ occupational social contact overall, for any time period or diagnostic group. OR for leukaemia and high levels of paternal occupational social contact at birth and diagnosis being 1.02 (95% confidence interval (CI) = 0.88–1.18) and 0.91 (95% CI = 0.79–1.06), respectively. Analyses by urban–rural status at diagnosis and by occupational title revealed no notable associations.Conclusions: The analyses of paternal occupational histories do not support the suggested association between high levels of paternal occupational social contact and an increased risk of childhood leukaemia. However, the role of participation bias should not be discounted.
Starting Page	1091
Ending Page	1097
Page Count	7
File Format	PDF
ISSN	09575243
Journal	Cancer Causes & Control
Volume Number	16
Issue Number	9
e-ISSN	15737225
Language	English
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Publisher Date	2005-01-01
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	case–control study childhood cancer leukaemia paternal occupation social contact Cancer Research Public Health/Gesundheitswesen Hematology Oncology Epidemiology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Cancer Research Oncology

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