Cancer Incidence and Risk Factors: Preventing Cancer across the Life Course
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Public Health Statistics and Risk Assessment".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2022) | Viewed by 9834
Special Issue Editors
Interests: cancer prevention; lifestyle risk factors; cancer disparities; etiology of breast cancer
Special Issue Information
Cancer is among the leading causes of death worldwide. Environmental and/or potentially modifiable risk factors are important to investigate to reduce the overall burden of cancer. Indeed, more than 40% of cancers are attributable to modifiable lifestyle risk factors and could be preventable. Characterizing the constellation of exposures and risk factors over the life course is key in cancer prevention. While specific etiologically relevant windows of susceptibility to cancer risk factors have been proposed, more research is needed to characterize the interplay of environmental and lifestyle factors with timing of exposures in the life course. In this Special Issue, we welcome manuscript submissions focused on understanding how exposures to known cancer risk or protective factors may vary based on the timing of exposure across the life course. The requested manuscripts can focus on multiple cancer sites and risk factors, including alcohol, tobacco and secondhand smoke, traffic-related air pollution and chemicals, as well as protective behaviors, such as consuming a healthy diet, being physically active, maintaining a healthy weight, and using sun protection. Studies examining etiologically relevant time periods for exposure to cancer risk factors, and those using innovative methodologies to characterize exposures across the life course are of particular interest.
Dr. Kelly A. Hirko
Prof. Dr. Dorothy R. Pathak
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- cancer
- prevention
- life course
- risk factors
- modifiable
- lifestyle
- environmental
- early-life exposures
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