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Program, Abstracts
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Workshop Chair: R. Matthes |
Monday 5 May |
Session 1 –
Childhood leukemia |
09.00 |
Welcome by ICNIRP
Welcome by WHO
Welcome by BfS |
M Hietanen
E Van Deventer
W Weiss |
09.30 |
Incidence, time trends and
regional variations of childhood leukemia |
P Kaatsch |
10.00 |
Aetiology of acute childhood
leukaemias |
C Rössig
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10.30 |
Coffee break |
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11.00 |
Genetic susceptibility to childhood
leukemia |
A Chokkalingam |
11.30 |
Risk-adapted stratification
and treatment of childhood acute lymphoblastic
leukemia |
M Schrappe |
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Session
2 - Uncertainties and challenges |
12.00 |
Exposure assessment – Implications
for epidemiological studies of ionizing radiation |
C Muirhead |
12.30 |
Exposure assessment and other
challenges in nonionizing radiation studies |
L Kheifets |
13.00 |
Lunch break |
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14.00 |
Pesticide exposure assessment
issues in childhood leukemia studies |
B Ritz |
14.30 |
Cluster investigations using
disease mapping methods |
P Schlattmann |
Session
3 - Environmental risk factors – Ionizing radiation |
Epidemiological
studies – high (single) doses |
15.00 |
Childhood leukaemia in the
Japanese atomic bomb survivors and in radiotherapeutically
exposed groups |
M Little |
15.30 |
Coffee break |
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16.00 |
Childhood leukaemia following
antenatal or postnatal exposure to X-rays for
diagnostic purposes |
R Wakeford |
Epidemiological
studies - chronic exposure at low doses |
16.30 |
Indoor radon and
childhood leukemia |
O Raaschou-Nielsen |
17.00 |
Close |
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Tuesday
6 May |
09:00 |
Childhood leukemias near nuclear
installations |
D Laurier |
09.30 |
Childhood Leukemia near British
nuclear installations: methodological issues and
recent results |
J Bithell |
10.00 |
The recent KIKK study: results
put into perspective |
B Grosche |
10.30 |
Coffee break |
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Session
4 – Environmental risk factors – Non ionizing
radiation |
11.00 |
Epidemiological studies - low
frequency fields |
A Ahlbom |
11.30 |
Epidemiological studies - high
frequency fields |
J Schüz |
Session
5 – Environmental risk factors – Pesticides and
other chemicals |
12.00 |
Insecticides, herbicides, fungicides
and childhood leukemia |
C Metayer |
12.30 |
Chemical risk factors and childhood
leukemia |
C Infante-Rivard |
13.00 |
Lunch break |
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14.00 |
Do EMFs enhance effects of
environmental carcinogens? |
J Juutilainen |
Session
6 – Prenatal parental exposures |
14.30 |
Maternal occupational exposures
and childhood leukemia and lymphoma |
P McKinney |
15.00 |
Preconception exposures to
potential germ cell mutagens |
G Draper |
15.30 |
Coffee break |
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16.00 |
Childhood leukemia and socio-economic
status |
C. Kühni |
16.30 |
Childhood leukaemia, intrauterine
growth and diet |
N. de Klerk |
17.00 |
Close |
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19.30 |
Workshop Dinner |
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Wednesday
7 May |
Session
7 - Hypotheses on dysregulated immune responses
to common infections |
09.00 |
Childhood leukemia and infection:
current hypotheses under
studies and gene-environment interaction |
J Clavel |
09.30 |
A meta-analytic evaluation
of day care attendance and risk of childhood acute
lymphoblastic leukemia |
K Urayama |
10.00 |
Host, family and community
proxies for infections associated with leukemia |
G Law |
10.30 |
Coffee break |
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Session 8 |
11.00 |
Roundup, discussion and recommendations |
C Portier |
13.30 |
Close of the Workshop |
R Matthes |
