Sun exposure, birth weight, and childhood lymphomas: A case control study in Greece

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1031-1037

  Petridou, Eleni Th ^a,b   Dikalioti, Stavroula K ^a   Skalkidou, Alkistis ^a,c   Andrie, Elisabeth ^a   Sophia, Polychronopoulou ^d   Maria, Moschovi ^a   Fani, Athanassiadou Piperopoulou ^e   Pourtsidis, Apostolos ^f   Maria, Kalmanti ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d Aghia Sophia General Children's Hospital Athens   (Greece)

^e ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^f AGHIA SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^g UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

Author keywords

Birth weight; Childhood; Hodgkin; Incidence; Non Hodgkin lymphoma; Sun exposure

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CHILD; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DEMOGRAPHY; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL SMOKING; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SUN EXPOSURE; SUNBATHING;

EID: 34547744917     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: 15737225     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10552-007-9044-2     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. Percy C, Smith M, Linet M, Ries LAG, Friedman DL (1999) Lymphomas and reticuloendothelial neoplasms. In: Ries LAG, Smith MA, Gurney JG, Linet M, Tamra T, Young JL, Bunin GR (eds) Cancer incidence and survival among children and adolescents: United States SEER Program 1975-1995, National Cancer Institute, SEER Program. NIH, Bethesda Pub No. 99-4649
2. Stiller CA (1998) What causes Hodgkin's disease in children? Eur J Cancer 34:523-528
3. Jarrett RF, Armstrong AA, Alexander E (1996) Epidemiology of EBV and Hodgkin's lymphoma. Ann Oncol 7:5-10
4. Melby M, Adami H (2002) Hodgkin's lymphoma. In: Adami H, Hunter D, Trichopoulos D (eds) Textbook of cancer epidemiology. Oxford University Press, New York, pp 520-534
5. Ambinder RF, Lemas MV, Moore S, Yang J, Fabian D, Krone C (1999) Ebstein-Barr virus and lymphoma. Cancer Treat Res 99:27-45
6. Hjalgrim H, Askling J, Sorensen P et al (2000) Risk of Hodgkin's disease and other cancers after infectious mononucleosis. J Natl Cancer Inst 92:1522-1528
7. Gutensohn N, Cole P (1977) Epidemiology of Hodgkin's disease in the young. Int J Cancer 19:595-604
8. Alexander FE, Ricketts TJ, McKinney PA, Cartwright RA (1991) Community lifestyle characteristics and incidence of Hodgkin's disease in young people. Int J Cancer 48:10-14
9. Nyari TA, Dickinson HO, Hammal DM, Parker L (2003) Childhood solid tumors in relation to population mixing around the time of birth. Br J Cancer 88:1370-1374
10. Petridou E, Andrie E, Dessypris N, Dikalioti SK, Trichopoulos D, The Childhood Hematology-Oncology Group (2006) Incidence and characteristics of childhood Hodgkin's lymphoma in Greece: a nationwide study. Cancer Causes Control 17:209-215
11. Vianna NJ, Lawrence CE, Davies JN et al (1980) Tonsillectomy and childhood Hodgkin's disease. Lancet 2:338-340
12. Mack TM, Cozen W, Shibata DK et al (1995) Concordance for Hodgkin's disease in identical twins suggesting genetic susceptibility to the young-adult form of the disease. N Engl J Med 332:413-418
13. John EM, Savitz DA, Sandler DP (1991) Prenatal exposure to parents' smoking and childhood cancer. Am J Epidemiol 133:123-132
14. Sorahan T, Lancashire R, Prior P, Peck I, Stewart A (1995) Childhood cancer and parental use of alcohol and tobacco. Ann Epidemiol 5:354-359
15. Becker N, Deeg E, Nieters A (2004) Population-based study of lymphoma in Germany: rationale, study design and first results. Leuk Res 28:713-724
16. Shu XO, Jin F, Linet MS et al (1994) Diagnostic X-ray and ultrasound exposure and risk of childhood cancer. Br J Cancer 70:531-536
17. Adami J, Glimelius B, Cnattingius S et al (1996) Maternal and perinatal factors associated with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma among children. Int J Cancer 65:774-777
18. Smulevich VB, Solionova LG, Belyakova SV (1999) Parental occupation and other factors and cancer risk in children: I. Study methodology and non-occupational factors. Int J Cancer 83:712-717
19. Niedobitek G, Young LS, Herbst H (1997) Epstein-Barr virus infection and the pathogenesis of malignant lymphomas. Cancer Surv 30:143-162
20. Kersey JH, Shapiro RS, Filipovich AH (1988) Relationship of immunodeficiency to lymphoid malignancy. Pediatr Infect Dis J 7:S10-S12
21. Taylor AM, Metcalfe JA, Thick J, Mak YF (1996) Leukemia and lymphoma in ataxia telangiectasia. Blood 87:423-438
22. McClain KL, Joshi VV, Murphy SB (1996) Cancers in children with HIV infection. Hematol Oncol Clin North Am 10:1189-1201
23. McMichael AJ, Giles GG (1996) Have increases in solar ultraviolet exposure contributed to the rise in incidence of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma? Br J Cancer 73:945-950
24. Bentham G (1996) Association between incidence of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and solar ultraviolet radiation in England and Wales. BMJ 312:1128-1131
25. Langford IH, Bentham G, McDonald AL (1998) Mortality from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and UV exposure in the European community. Health Place 4:355-364
26. Boscoe FP, Schymura MJ (2006) Solar ultraviolet-B exposure and cancer incidence and mortality in the United States, 1993-2002. BMC Cancer 6:264
27. Hughes AM, Armstrong BK, Vajdic CM et al (2004) Sun exposure may protect against non-Hodgkin's lymphoma: a case-control study. Int J Cancer 112:865-871
28. Smedby KE, Hjalgrim H, Melbye M et al (2005) Ultraviolet radiation exposure and risk of malignant lymphomas. J Natl Cancer Inst 97:199-209
29. Hartge P, Lim U, Freedman DM, Colt JS et al (2006) Ultraviolet radiation, dietary vitamin D, and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (United States). Cancer Causes Control 17:1045-1052
30. SAS Institute Inc. 1989 SAS/STAT User's Guide, Version 6, 4th edn. Cary, NC
31. ACCIS- Automated childhood cancer information system. Cancer incidence and survival by registry and tumour. Available at: http://www-dep.iarc.fr/accis. htm Last updated March 11, 2003
32. Hartge P, Devesa SS, Grauman D, Fears TR, Fraumeni JF Jr (1996) Non Hodgkin's lymphoma and sunlight. J Natl Cancer Inst 88:298-300
33. Grant WB (2003) Ecologic studies of solar UV-B radiation and cancer mortality rates. Recent Results Cancer Res 164:371-377
34. Hu S, Ma F, Collado-Mesa F, Kirsner RS (2004) Ultraviolet radiation and incidence of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma among Hispanics in the United States. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 13:59-64
35. Grant WB (2002) An estimate of premature cancer mortality in the U.S. due to inadequate doses of solar ultraviolet-B radiation. Cancer 94:1867-1875
36. Newton R (1997) Solar ultraviolet radiation is not a major cause of primary cutaneous non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. BMJ 314:1483-1484
37. Schuz J, Kaatsch P, Kaletsch U, Meinert R, Michaelis J (1999) Association of childhood cancer with factors related to pregnancy and birth. Int J Epidemiol 28:631-639
38. Petridou E, Trichopoulos D, Kalapothaki V et al (1997) The risk profile of childhood leukaemia in Greece: a nationwide case-control study. Br J Cancer 76:1241-1247
39. Hjalgrim LL, Rostgaard K, Hjalgrim H et al (2004) Birth weight and risk for childhood leukemia in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Iceland. J Natl Cancer Inst 96:1549-1556
40. Skalkidou A, Petridou E, Papathoma E et al (2003) Determinants and consequences of major insulin-like growth factor components among full-term healthy neonates. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 12:860-865
41. Mucci LA, Granath F, Cnattingius S (2004) Maternal smoking and childhood leukemia and lymphoma risk among 1,440,542 Swedish children. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 13:1528-1533