Breast Cancer, Unspecified Adult Solid Tumor, Protocol Specific
Conditions
Keywords
breast cancer, unspecified adult solid tumor, protocol specific
Brief summary
RATIONALE: Gathering information about pregnancy, infancy, and early childhood exposures may help doctors identify cancer risk factors, and may help the study of cancer. PURPOSE: This natural history study is looking at the effects of fetal, infant, and early childhood exposures on adult cancer risk in women.
Detailed description
OBJECTIVES: * Determine if fetal, infant, and early childhood exposures are associated with adult cancer risk in women. OUTLINE: Mothers of nurses complete questionnaires to collect maternal data, such as pregnancy weight gain, diet during pregnancy, maternal pre-eclampsia, gestational diabetes, gestational age at birth, birth weight, and infant feeding practices. Maternal data is linked to other data collected from critical time periods in the nurses's life cycle, such as menarche, first pregnancy, or adult dietary intake.
Interventions
OTHERquestionnaire administration
PROCEDUREevaluation of cancer risk factors
Sponsors
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
FEMALE
Age
18 Years to 89 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS: * Mother of a nurse who is a participant in the Nurses' Health Studies I and II * Nurse free of cancer in the year 2000 PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS: * Not specified PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY: * Not specified
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Diagnosis of incident cancers and other chronic diseases | — |
| Mortality | — |
Countries
United States
Outcome results
None listed