NCT00559039

Effects of Fetal, Infant, and Early Childhood Exposures on Adult Cancer Risk in Women

Fetal, Infant and Early Childhood Antecedents of Cancer in Women: Maternal Cohort Study of the Nurses' Health Studies

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 128,700 (estimated)
• Sponsor: National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC) · NIH
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 89 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

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.

Conditions

• Breast Cancer
• Unspecified Adult Solid Tumor, Protocol Specific

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	questionnaire administration
PROCEDURE	evaluation of cancer risk factors

Timeline

• Start date: 2000-10-01
• Completion: 2006-10-01
• First posted: 2007-11-16
• Last updated: 2012-03-08

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States