Effects of Fetal, Infant, and Early Childhood Exposures on Adult Cancer Risk in Women
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00559039 |
Recruitment Status :
Completed
First Posted : November 16, 2007
Last Update Posted : March 8, 2012
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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.
Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment |
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Breast Cancer Unspecified Adult Solid Tumor, Protocol Specific | Other: questionnaire administration Procedure: evaluation of cancer risk factors |
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.
Study Type : | Observational |
Estimated Enrollment : | 128700 participants |
Official Title: | Fetal, Infant and Early Childhood Antecedents of Cancer in Women: Maternal Cohort Study of the Nurses' Health Studies |
Study Start Date : | October 2000 |
Actual Study Completion Date : | October 2006 |

- Diagnosis of incident cancers and other chronic diseases
- Mortality

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Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years to 89 Years (Adult, Older Adult) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | Female |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | Yes |
DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:
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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

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00559039
United States, Maryland | |
Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center - NCI Clinical Trials Referral Office | |
Bethesda, Maryland, United States, 20892-1182 |
Principal Investigator: | Michele R. Forman, PhD | M.D. Anderson Cancer Center |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00559039 History of Changes |
Obsolete Identifiers: | NCT00340145 |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
999901015 01-C-N015 CDR0000565931 |
First Posted: | November 16, 2007 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | March 8, 2012 |
Last Verified: | March 2012 |
Keywords provided by National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC):
breast cancer unspecified adult solid tumor, protocol specific |