Childhood Cancer
Title: Childhood Cancer
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Reference: [PDF-2MB]Mar 2011 America’s Children and the Environment, Third Edition
Keywords: childhood cancers
Abstract: …Other childhood cancers with identified associations to environmental contaminants include thyroid cancer, Wilms’ tumor (a type of kidney cancer), and Ewing’s sarcoma (a cancer of the bone or soft tissue). An increased risk of thyroid cancer in children has been linked to ionizing radiation exposure. Much of the evidence for this association comes from studies of individuals in areas with high ionizing radiation exposure due to the Chernobyl accident in eastern Europe….
URL: http://www.epa.gov/ace/ace3draft/draft_pdfs/ACE3ChildhoodCancerReviewPackage3-02-11.pdf
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