Wafaa M Rashed: Key Research Findings from the Childhood Cancer and CLIC
Wafaa M Rashed, Chair and Founder of PAPERI (Pan-African PGS Education and Research Initiative), shared a post on LinkedIn:
“Pesticides and Childhood Leukemia.
September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. This month, I’m highlighting key research findings from the Childhood Cancer and Leukemia International Consortium (CLIC)—a global collaboration dedicated to understanding and preventing childhood cancers.
Study Highlight: A pooled analysis by CLIC investigated whether parental occupational exposure to pesticides influences the risk of childhood leukemia.
Key Insights: Children of fathers who worked with pesticides around the time of conception had a slightly increased risk of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).
Children of mothers who worked with pesticides during pregnancy faced a markedly increased risk of acute myeloid leukemia (AML).
These findings suggest that parental occupational exposures—particularly during critical windows like conception and pregnancy—may contribute to childhood leukemia risk.
Why It Matters:
This study underscores the need for better protection against harmful occupational exposures, not only for workers but also for their future children. It highlights how global data pooling through CLIC helps uncover subtle but important risk factors that may otherwise go unnoticed.
Call to Action:
As we continue raising awareness during Gold September, let’s advocate for policies that reduce hazardous exposures and support research that protects children’s health worldwide.”
Title: Parental occupational pesticide exposure and the risk of childhood leukemia in the offspring: Findings from the childhood leukemia international consortium
Authors: Helen D. Bailey, Lin Fritschi, Claire Infante-Rivard, Deborah C. Glass, Lucia Miligi, John D. Dockerty, Tracy Lightfoot, Jacqueline Clavel, Eve Roman, Logan G. Spector, Peter Kaatsch, Catherine Metayer, Corrado Magnani, Elizabeth Milne, Sophia Polychronopoulou, Jill Simpson, Jérémie Rudant, Vasiliki Sidi, Roberto Rondelli, Laurent Orsi, Alice Y. Kang, Eleni Petridou, Joachim Schüz
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