Environmental health disparities in pediatric cancer: a report from the Fourth Symposium on Childhood Cancer Health Disparities
The 4th Symposium on Childhood Cancer Health Disparities was held at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, Texas, on September 26, 2023. The symposium registered 94 attendees from different backgrounds (e.g. clinicians, epidemiologists, exposure assessment scientists, geospatial experts) with an interest in environmental health disparities of pediatric cancer susceptibility and treatment outcomes. The focus of the symposium was to provide an overview of the role of environmental risk factors in studies of pediatric cancer, introduce novel exposure assessment tools that can be applied to the field, and highlight opportunities to study the impact of environmental health disparities in pediatric cancer susceptibility and outcomes. This report summarizes the scientific content of the symposium and highlights priorities to advance the field.
Authors
- Donald W. Coulter (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-0971)
- Michael E. Scheurer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8379-6088)
- William E. Funk (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4819-0507)
- Lindsay A. Williams (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3842-4629)
- Adam J. de Smith (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4880-7543)
- Amy E. Hughes (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1085-0282)
- Philip J. Lupo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0978-5863)
- Stephen H. Linder (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1316-4496)
- Manish Arora (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3350-4657)
- Letícia Nogueira (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6990-3660)
- Jeremy M. Schraw (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6674-9562)
- Thanh T. Hoang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8498-0020)
- Zdenko Herceg (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4109-3154)
- David Haynes (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6858-428X)
Institutions
- University of Southern California (US)
- American Cancer Society (US)
- University of Minnesota (US)
- Baylor College of Medicine (US)
- Southwestern Medical Center (US)
- World Health Organization (CH)
- Texas Children's Hospital (US)
- Centre international de recherche sur le cancer (FR)
- Southwestern Medical Center (US)
- University of Nebraska Medical Center (US)
- The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (US)
- Epigenomics (Germany) (DE)
- The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (US)
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Pediatric Hematology and Oncology
- Published
- 2025-03-20
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1080/08880018.2025.2479479
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 3.49
Funders
- Northwestern Mutual Foundation