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Title: Childhood cancer in relation to parental race and ethnicity a 5-state pooled analysis

Citation Type: Book, Whole

Publication Year: 2010

ISBN: 0008-543X

ISSN: 0008543X

DOI: 10.1002/cncr.25099

PMID: 20564410

Abstract: BACKGROUND: Children of different racial/ethnic backgrounds have varying risks of cancer. However, to the authors' knowledge, few studies to date have examined cancer occurrence in children of mixed ancestry.\n\nMETHODS: This population-based case-control study examined cancer among children aged <15 years using linked cancer and birth registry data from 5 US states from 1978 through 2004. Data were available for 13,249 cancer cases and 36,996 controls selected from birth records. Parental race/ethnicity was determined from birth records. Logistic regression analysis was used to examine the association of cancer with different racial/ethnic groups.\n\nRESULTS: Compared with whites, blacks had a 28% decreased risk of cancer (odds ratio [OR], 0.72; 95% confidence interval [95% CI], 0.65-0.80), whereas both Asians and Hispanics had an approximate 15% decrease. Children of mixed white/black ancestry also were found to be at decreased risk (OR, 0.71; 95% CI, 0.56-0.90), but estimates for mixed white/Asian and white/Hispanic children did not differ from those of whites. Compared with whites: 1) black and mixed white/black children had decreased ORs for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (OR, 0.39 [95% CI, 0.31-0.49] and OR, 0.58 [95% CI, 0.37-0.91], respectively); 2) Asian and mixed white/Asian children had decreased ORs for brain tumors (OR, 0.51 [95% CI, 0.39-0.68] and OR, 0.79 [95% CI, 0.54-1.16], respectively); and 3) Hispanic and mixed white/Hispanic children had decreased ORs for neuroblastoma (OR, 0.51 [95% CI, 0.42-0.61] and OR, 0.67 [95% CI, 0.50-0.90], respectively).\n\nCONCLUSIONS: Children of mixed ancestry tend to have disease risks that are more similar to those of racial/ethnic minority children than the white majority group. This tendency may help formulate etiologic studies designed to study possible genetic and environmental differences more directly.

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Authors: Chow, Eric J.; Puumala, Susan E.; Mueller, Beth A.; Carozza, Susan E.; Fox, Erin E.; Horel, Scott; Johnson, Kimberly J.; McLaughlin, Colleen C.; Reynolds, Peggy; Von Behren, Julie; Spector, Logan G.

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Pages: 3045-3053

Volume: 116

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