A tipping point in cancer epidemiology: embracing a life course exposomic framework

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Abstract

The pathogenesis of multifactorial malignant diseases, with variable onset, severity, and natural history, reflects development-specific exposures and individual responses to these exposures influenced by underlying genetic predisposition. Embedded in life course theory, exposomics provides a framework to more fully elucidate how environmental factors alter cancer risk, disease course, and response to treatment across the lifespan.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)280-282
Number of pages3
JournalTrends in Cancer
Volume8
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 2022

Funding

During preparation of this manuscript R.J.W. was supported by UH3OD023337, P30ES023515, and UL1TR001433; H.A.H. was supported by the Joint Design of Advanced Computing Solutions for Cancer (JDACS4C) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the National Institutes of Health DE-AC05-00OR22725. This work was authored, in part, by UT-Battelle, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the US Department of Energy. The US Government retains a non-exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, world-wide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for US Government purposes. None declared by authors.

Keywords

  • air pollution
  • carcinogens
  • exposome
  • life course theory
  • pediatric cancer
  • radon

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