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The Inter-Regional Epidemiological Study of Childhood Cancer (IRESCO). Study design, control selection and data collection.
The Inter-Regional Epidemiological Study of Childhood Cancer (IRESCC) was established to investigate the role of possible aetiological factors in childhood cancer, with particular emphasis on environmental exposures to the foetus and family history of certain diseases including cancer. Incident case...
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author | Birch, J. M. Mann, J. R. Cartwright, R. A. Draper, G. J. Waterhouse, J. A. Hartley, A. L. Johnston, H. E. McKinney, P. A. Stiller, C. A. Hopton, P. A. |
author_facet | Birch, J. M. Mann, J. R. Cartwright, R. A. Draper, G. J. Waterhouse, J. A. Hartley, A. L. Johnston, H. E. McKinney, P. A. Stiller, C. A. Hopton, P. A. |
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description | The Inter-Regional Epidemiological Study of Childhood Cancer (IRESCC) was established to investigate the role of possible aetiological factors in childhood cancer, with particular emphasis on environmental exposures to the foetus and family history of certain diseases including cancer. Incident cases occurring in three Health Service regions (the West Midlands, Yorkshire and North Western) were matched for age and sex with two sets of control children. A total of 555 cases and 1110 controls were entered into the study. The parents of each index child were interviewed with respect to events during the relevant pregnancy, occupation, smoking habits, and past medical history of themselves, the child's siblings and other relatives. Ninety-three per cent of case parents approached agreed to be interviewed, and approximately 90% of controls were ranked first or second on the control selection lists. After the interview information was verified by reference to antenatal and other medical records. Obstetric and general practitioner records were abstracted for approximately 90% of cases and controls. Information derived from the interview and that from medical records was coded separately. The data collected by each region have been pooled and case-control comparisons of potential aetiological factors will be carried out, using matched triplet analyses. |
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spelling | pubmed-19772712009-09-10 The Inter-Regional Epidemiological Study of Childhood Cancer (IRESCO). Study design, control selection and data collection. Birch, J. M. Mann, J. R. Cartwright, R. A. Draper, G. J. Waterhouse, J. A. Hartley, A. L. Johnston, H. E. McKinney, P. A. Stiller, C. A. Hopton, P. A. Br J Cancer Research Article The Inter-Regional Epidemiological Study of Childhood Cancer (IRESCC) was established to investigate the role of possible aetiological factors in childhood cancer, with particular emphasis on environmental exposures to the foetus and family history of certain diseases including cancer. Incident cases occurring in three Health Service regions (the West Midlands, Yorkshire and North Western) were matched for age and sex with two sets of control children. A total of 555 cases and 1110 controls were entered into the study. The parents of each index child were interviewed with respect to events during the relevant pregnancy, occupation, smoking habits, and past medical history of themselves, the child's siblings and other relatives. Ninety-three per cent of case parents approached agreed to be interviewed, and approximately 90% of controls were ranked first or second on the control selection lists. After the interview information was verified by reference to antenatal and other medical records. Obstetric and general practitioner records were abstracted for approximately 90% of cases and controls. Information derived from the interview and that from medical records was coded separately. The data collected by each region have been pooled and case-control comparisons of potential aetiological factors will be carried out, using matched triplet analyses. Nature Publishing Group 1985-12 /pmc/articles/PMC1977271/ /pubmed/4074644 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Birch, J. M. Mann, J. R. Cartwright, R. A. Draper, G. J. Waterhouse, J. A. Hartley, A. L. Johnston, H. E. McKinney, P. A. Stiller, C. A. Hopton, P. A. The Inter-Regional Epidemiological Study of Childhood Cancer (IRESCO). Study design, control selection and data collection. |
title | The Inter-Regional Epidemiological Study of Childhood Cancer (IRESCO). Study design, control selection and data collection. |
title_full | The Inter-Regional Epidemiological Study of Childhood Cancer (IRESCO). Study design, control selection and data collection. |
title_fullStr | The Inter-Regional Epidemiological Study of Childhood Cancer (IRESCO). Study design, control selection and data collection. |
title_full_unstemmed | The Inter-Regional Epidemiological Study of Childhood Cancer (IRESCO). Study design, control selection and data collection. |
title_short | The Inter-Regional Epidemiological Study of Childhood Cancer (IRESCO). Study design, control selection and data collection. |
title_sort | inter-regional epidemiological study of childhood cancer (iresco). study design, control selection and data collection. |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1977271/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4074644 |
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