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Glioma risk factors

Introduction

Overview

Overview

Common risk factors in the development of glioma may be occupational, environmental, genetic, and viral.[1][2][3][4][5]

Risk factors

Risk factors

Common risk factors in the development of glioma may be occupational, environmental, genetic, and viral.[1][2][3][4][5]

Category Risk factors

Occupational factors

  • Farmers
  • Architects
  • Surveyors
  • Retail workers
  • Butchers
  • Engineers

Environmental factors

Genetic factors

Viruses

References

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Efird, Jimmy T.; Davies, Stephen W.; O’Neal, Wesley T.; Anderson, Ethan J. (2014). “Animal viruses, bacteria, and cancer: a brief commentary”. Frontiers in Public Health. 2: 14. doi:10.3389/fpubh.2014.00014. ISSN 2296-2565. PMC 3923154. PMID 24592380.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Ruder, Avima M.; Carreón, Tania; Butler, Mary Ann; Calvert, Geoffrey M.; Davis-King, Karen E.; Waters, Martha A.; Schulte, Paul A.; Mandel, Jack S.; Morton, Roscoe F. (Jun 15, 2009). “Exposure to farm crops, livestock, and farm tasks and risk of glioma: the Upper Midwest Health Study”. American Journal of Epidemiology. 169 (12): 1479–1491. doi:10.1093/aje/kwp075. ISSN 1476-6256. PMID 19403843.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Ostrom, Quinn T.; Bauchet, Luc; Davis, Faith G.; Deltour, Isabelle; Fisher, James L.; Langer, Chelsea Eastman; Pekmezci, Melike; Schwartzbaum, Judith A.; Turner, Michelle C. (Jul 2014). “The epidemiology of glioma in adults: a “state of the science” review”. Neuro-Oncology. 16 (7): 896–913. doi:10.1093/neuonc/nou087. ISSN 1523-5866. PMC 4057143. PMID 24842956.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Reuss, D; von Deimling, A (2009). “Hereditary tumor syndromes and gliomas”. Recent results in cancer research. Fortschritte der Krebsforschung. Progres dans les recherches sur le cancer. 171: 83–102. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-31206-2_5. PMID 19322539.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Schwartzbaum JA, Fisher JL, Aldape KD, Wrensch M (2006). “Epidemiology and molecular pathology of glioma”. Nat Clin Pract Neurol. 2 (9): 494–503, quiz 1 p following 516. doi:10.1038/ncpneuro0289. PMID 16932614.


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