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Feature Paper in Section ‘Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention’ in 2025
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Feature Paper in Section ‘Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention’ in 2025

A special issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694). This special issue belongs to the section "Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 669

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Roger Anderson

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1. Department of Public Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA
2. Cancer Center, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA
Interests: cancer prevention; health services research; health disparities; rural health
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Dr. Paweł Koczkodaj

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Cancer Epidemiology and Primary Prevention Department, Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology, 02-781 Warsaw, Poland
Interests: cancer prevention; cancer epidemiology; health education; public health
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This collection is the second edition of the Special Issue “Feature Paper in Section “Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention” in 2022–2023”

Cancer prevention and cancer epidemiology are among the most crucial elements of oncology. Primary and secondary cancer prevention give efficient tools aiming at reducing risk factor exposure, as well as allowing us to detect cancer at a very early stage. It has been estimated that at least 50% of all cancer cases could be prevented if we follow healthy lifestyle recommendations. Moreover, cancer epidemiology gives us a broad picture on how efficient cancer prevention is and where further improvement is needed. Thanks to cancer epidemiology, we can also observe changes in health behaviors, cancer incidence, and treatment efficacy as a result of policies.

We would like to invite you to submit papers (original and reviews) thematically connected to the scope of this Special Issue. We are particularly, but not exclusively, interested in papers focused on the effects of policies, community programs, and the implementation of new practices on cancer prevention. We believe that Cancers is an ideal platform to exchange perspectives and to present results of studies on cancer prevention and epidemiology.

Prof. Dr. Roger Anderson
Dr. Paweł Koczkodaj
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • cancer prevention
  • cancer epidemiology
  • health policy
  • public health
  • global health
  • health education
  • health promotion

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Causes of Childhood Cancer: A Review of Literature (2014–2021): Part 2—Pregnancy and Birth-Related Factors
by Rebecca T. Emeny, Angela M. Ricci, Linda Titus, Alexandra Morgan, Pamela J. Bagley, Heather B. Blunt, Mary E. Butow, Jennifer A. Alford-Teaster, Raymond R. Walston III and Judy R. Rees
Cancers 2025, 17(15), 2499; https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers17152499 - 29 Jul 2025
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Purpose: To review parental pre-pregnancy and pregnancy exposures in relation to pediatric cancer (diagnosis before age 20). Methods: We conducted literature searches using Ovid Medline and Scopus to find primary research studies, review articles, and meta-analyses published from 2014 to 17 March 2021. [...] Read more.
Purpose: To review parental pre-pregnancy and pregnancy exposures in relation to pediatric cancer (diagnosis before age 20). Methods: We conducted literature searches using Ovid Medline and Scopus to find primary research studies, review articles, and meta-analyses published from 2014 to 17 March 2021. Results: Strong evidence links increased risk of childhood cancer with maternal diabetes, age, and alcohol and coffee consumption during pregnancy. Both paternal and maternal cigarette smoking before and during pregnancy are associated with childhood cancers. Diethylstilbestrol (DES) exposure in utero has long been known to be causally associated with increased risk of vaginal/cervical cancers in adolescent girls. More recent evidence implicates in utero DES exposure to testicular cancer in young men and possible intergenerational effects on ovarian cancer in the granddaughters of women exposed to DES during pregnancy. There is strong evidence that childhood cancer risk is also associated with both high and very low birth weight and with gestational age. Evidence is also strong for the protective effects of maternal vitamin consumption and a healthy diet during pregnancy. Unlike early studies, those reviewed here show no association between in utero exposure to medical ionizing radiation, which may be explained by reductions over time in radiation doses, avoidance of radiation during pregnancy, and/or by inadequate statistical power to detect small increases in risk, rather than a lack of causal association. Evidence is mixed or conflicting for an association between childhood cancer and maternal obesity, birth order, cesarean/instrumental delivery, and prenatal exposure to diagnostic medical radiation. Evidence is weak or absent for associations between childhood cancer and multiple gestations or assisted reproductive therapies, as well as prenatal exposure to hormones other than DES, and medications. Full article
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