On 16 and 17 February was held at CREAL, an ISGlobal allied centre, the eighth and last MOBI-KIDS Consortium Meeting. The meeting was attended by investigators from 15 different countries.
Among other topics we talked about the state of the data and descriptive results, validation studies, exposure assessment and preliminary results.
The study is conducted in four Italian regions (Piemonte, Lombardia, Emilia Romagna and Toscana), comprising more than 22 million inhabitants, about 37% of the Italian population, and approximately 3 million of 10 to 24 years old children and adolescents. Fieldwork started in 2011 and has already involved 112 cases and 195 controls. It is scheduled…
Mobi-Kids in Canada is coordinated by Dr. Daniel Krewski, national PI, and Ms Charmaine Mohipp, national fieldwork coordinator, at the University of Ottawa, in collaboration with the British Columbia Cancer Agency in Vancouver and the Cancer Care Ontario agency in Toronto. The study is conducted in three metropolitan areas: Ottawa, Toronto, and Vancouver (see map…
Mobi-Kids is run by the CREAL Radiation Programme, which seeks to better understand the potential risks associated with exposure to ionising and non-ionising radiation, with a view to improving public health and ensuring adequate radiation protection of the general public, patients and those exposed in their work. The Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), an…
FRANCE Capital: Paris Largest city: Paris Official languages: French Total population: 66,318,000 MOBI-Kids population: 3,485,577 Popular foods: baguette, cheese, wine, foie gras, steak-frites, coq au vin ARECEA manages the French National Registry of Childhood Solid Tumors (RNTSE). RNTSE and RNHE (French National registry of Childhood Haematopoietic malignancies) jointly ensure the surveillance of cancer in children…
The Gertner Institute for Epidemiology and Health Policy Research The Gertner Institute is located on the grounds of the largest hospital in central Israel- the Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer. The institute is affiliated to Tel Aviv University Medical School and comprises 6 scientific units, a central biostatistics unit and a computer center. The Cancer…
Are communication technologies and environmental exposures risk factors for brain cancer in young people? Today marks the start of the international multi-centre study MOBI-KIDS, involving research groups in 13 countries investigating a relationship between communication technologies including mobile phones and environmental factors and brain cancer in young people. Among the childhood malignancies, brain tumours are…