Cancer in working-age is not associated with childhood adversities

Acta Oncologica
Sonja K KorpimäkiKari Mattila

Abstract

Early life events are studied as potential causes of cancer. The objective here was to study childhood adversities in the etiology of cancer. The material comprised a population based random sample of 25 898 individuals among the Finnish working-aged population. In 1998 they were requested through six questions in a postal questionnaire to recall their childhood adversities. The cases consisted of people with cancer diagnosed 2000-2006 and registered in the Finnish Cancer Registry (n = 384). The rest of the sample consisted of cancer-free controls. The most common adversities were prolonged financial difficulties, serious conflicts in the family and someone in the family having been seriously or chronically ill. The cancer patients reported more prolonged financial difficulties and someone seriously or chronically ill in the family. They reported less parental divorce than the controls. The associations were not statistically significant after adjusting for age, sex, education, and health behaviour. Nor was there a significant difference in the total number of childhood adversities between the study group and the controls. On the whole, these cancer patients had not experienced more childhood adversities than the controls. Acco...Continue Reading

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Nov 15, 2012·BMC Family Practice·Sonja KorpimäkiKari Mattila
Aug 21, 2013·BMC Public Health·Michelle Kelly-IrvingCyrille Delpierre
Jul 6, 2012·Journal of Aging and Health·Patricia M MortonKenneth F Ferraro
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