Children’s Cancer and Environmental Exposures: Professional Attitudes and Practices

Epidemiologic studies worldwide have provided substantial evidence of the contributions of environmental exposures to the development of childhood cancer, yet this knowledge has not been integrated into the routine practice of clinicians who care for children with this disease. To identify the basis of this deficit, we sought to assess the environmental history-taking behavior and perceptions of environmental health among pediatric hematologists and oncologists.

Authors

Mark Miller, MD, MPH Region 9 WSPEHSU Director Emeritus, UCSF

Catherine Metayer, MD, PhD UC Berkeley, Leading Childhood Cancer Researcher