Open AccessEstimating the Proportion of Childhood Cancer Cases and Costs Attributable to the Environment in California
Author(s) -
Lauren Nelson,
Jhaqueline Valle,
Galatea King,
Paul K. Mills,
Maxwell J. Richardson,
Eric M. Roberts,
Dianne Smith,
Paul English
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2017.303690
Subject(s) - environmental health , medicine , hazard ratio , hazard , cancer , demography , confidence interval , sociology , chemistry , organic chemistry
To estimate the proportion of cases and costs of the most common cancers among children aged 0 to 14 years (leukemia, lymphoma, and brain or central nervous system tumors) that were attributable to preventable environmental pollution in California in 2013.