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Parental occupation in farming and childhood cancer risk in I4C

Parental occupation in farming and childhood cancer risk in I4C. Ann Olsson & Joachim Schüz Section of Environment and Radiation International Agency for Research on Cancer Lyon, France. Rational. Majority of case-control studies show an association

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Parental occupation in farming and childhood cancer risk in I4C

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  1. Parental occupation in farming and childhood cancer risk in I4C Ann Olsson & Joachim Schüz Section of Environment and Radiation International Agency for Research on Cancer Lyon, France

  2. Rational • Majority of case-control studies show an association • Stronger associations with indoor pesticide exposure • Internal inconsistencies, e.g. lack of dose-response • Few cohorts show no or weaker association Case-control studies are prone to bias!

  3. Information bias Recall differences regarding maternaloccupational exposureto pesticides prior to conception Years between the date of birth and the date of the interview  cases  controls [Schüz et al., Am J Epi, 2003]

  4. Selection bias Typical pattern: Social gradient among controls [Law, Br J Cancer, 2002]

  5. Opportunity in I4C • Pooled prospective cohorts • Data collected prior to diagnosis • Data collected closer after “exposure” • Increased power • Standardized exposure assessment • Job titles ISCO-88 • ALOHA job exposure matrix

  6. Farming around the world Proportion of workersemployed in agriculture By country in I4C: Australia 4.0% UK 1.8% Norway 4.4% Denmark 3.6% Israel 2.6% Global pesticide production

  7. Challenges! • Limited occupational information • No history • No duration • Different classification systems • More or less OK to harmonize • ISCO-88 • Crude • ALOHA (one job = one exposure) • Misclassification (non-differential)

  8. International Standard Classification of occupations ISCO-88 ILO, Geneva

  9. ALOHA JEM Developed by H. Kromhout and R. Vermeulen (h.kromhout@uu.nl)

  10. Exposure misclassification: between worker variability Fathers Mothers Schüz et al., Am J Epidemiol, 2003

  11. Where we are in November 2012

  12. Revise I4Cfarm objectives ? • Investigate if parental occupations in different types of farming is associated with increased risk of cancer in their offspring • Evaluate the risk of childhood cancer associated with self reported parental use of pesticides during pregnancy • Compare type and frequency reported in case-control studies • If possible assess whether the risk of childhood cancer associated with parental exposure to occupation as a farmer and pesticides vary by exposure time-windows (preconception, prenatal, and postnatal)

  13. Let’s decide during this meeting! • Exposure assessment • Use the ALOHA JEM? • Focus on never vs. ever exposure? • Risk estimation • Should we wait for more studies to be included? • Compare prevalence of exposure with CLIC? • Re-code all data to look at other occupations (more frequent!) subsequently

  14. Next steps at IARC • “Clean” the occupational data • Re-code and convert occupational data • Receive complete data sets, and additional variables from IDCC • Data analyses plan • Data analyses • Manuscript(s) (study team)

  15. I4Cfarm – study team • LEAD - IARC/ENV (Ann Olsson, Joachim Schüz) • IARC/IMO (Kurt Straif) • NCI (Martha Linet) • MCRI (Gabriella Tikellis) • INSERM (Jacqueline Clavel) • CREAL (Martine Vrijheid) • Eligible cohorts (PI’s) • ALSPAC, DNBC, JPS, MoBA, TIHS, ?...

  16. Thank you! olsson@iarc.fr • Welcome to the I4C Environmental Working Group BREAKOUT SESSION tomorrow at 10.00

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