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Maternal Occupation And Pediatric Brain Cancer In Kentucky, Mary Begley
Maternal Occupation And Pediatric Brain Cancer In Kentucky, Mary Begley
Theses and Dissertations--Public Health (M.P.H. & Dr.P.H.)
Pediatric brain cancer is a rare and potentially deadly diagnosis that affects children in Kentucky at a higher incidence than those nationally. Limited exposures in children early in life to warrant the development and progression of brain cancer point to the role parental exposures experienced in the period prior to conception and throughout pregnancy may play in its development. Many of these exposures may be experienced through occupation. Data on a subset of pediatric brain cancer cases in Kentucky was compared to all cases diagnosed in the state from 1995 to 2019. Survey data of the study sample was collected …