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Title: Childhood leukemia: bad air linked to increased risk. (Science Selections).
Author: Ernie Hood
Publication: Environmental Health Perspectives (Refereed)
Date: April 1, 2003
Publisher: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Volume: 111 Issue: 4 Page: A232(2)Distributed by Thompson Gale

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Researchers in the Environmental Health Investigation Branch of the California Department of Health Services have discovered a possible association between exposure to hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) and the incidence of childhood leukemia [EHP 111:663-668]. Their epidemiologic evaluation suggests that children living in areas of high ambient air pollution are at increased risk of developing leukemia. Peggy Reynolds and her coauthors set out to evaluate whether childhood cancer rates were elevated in areas estimated to have high exposure to potentially carcinogenic HAPs. They used the population-based California Cancer Registry to gather information on all cancer cases diagnosed in children under age 15 from 1988 to 1994. They used a geographic information system to map nearly 7,000 childhood cases...