Authors:
Greenop KR, Peters S, Fritschi L, Glass DC, Ashton LJ, Bailey HD, Scott RJ, Daubenton J, de Klerk NH, Armstrong BK, Milne, E.
Authors notes:
Cancer Causes and Control. 2013;online:1-9
Keywords:
Brain tumors, Case-control, Child, Household exposures, Occupational exposures, Paint, Solvents
Abstract:
Childhood brain tumors (CBT) are the leading cause of cancer death in children, yet their etiology remains largely unknown.
This study investigated whether household exposure to paints and floor treatments and parental occupational painting were associated with CBT risk in a population-based case-control study conducted between 2005 and 2010.
Overall, we found little evidence that parental, fetal, or childhood exposure to home painting or floor treatments was associated with risk of CBT.
There was, though, some evidence of a positive association between childhood exposure to indoor painting and risk of high-grade glioma based on very small numbers.
The OR for the association between CBT and paternal occupational exposure to paint any time before the pregnancy was 1.32, which is consistent with the results of other studies.
Overall, we found little evidence of associations between household exposure to paint and the risk of CBT in any of the time periods investigated.