Kerri Fitzgerald

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A&nbsp;study published in the&nbsp;Journal of Epidemiology &amp; Community Health&nbsp;found that children who have a parent with cancer do worse in school and have poorer socioeconomic status later in life.&nbsp;The associations appeared stronger&nbsp;with more&nbsp;severe&nbsp;cancer cases.&nbsp;The&nbsp;register-linkage, prospective study&nbsp;included&nbsp;children born in Denmark&nbsp;between&nbsp;1978&nbsp;and&nbsp;1999 and their parents&nbsp;(totaling more than 1.15 million Danish children and parents).&nbsp;Researchers used the&nbsp;Danish National Patient Registry&nbsp;to identify parental cancer&nbsp;occurring&nbsp;while the child was&nbsp;younger than 18 years. They used Statistics Denmark registers to determine final grade point average (GPA) in ninth grade, educational attainment,&nbsp;and disposable personal income at 30&nbsp;years&nbsp;(n=360,054&nbsp;children).<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true">
Parental <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cancer?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#cancer</a> linked to poorer <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/school?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#school</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/grades?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#grades</a>, educational attainment, and adult earning power, say experts in <a href="https://twitter.com/JECH_BMJ?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JECH_BMJ</a> <a href="https://t.co/Z25RGzECXS">https://t.co/Z25RGzECXS</a> <a href="https://t.co/1lfbAOFCpS">pic.twitter.com/1lfbAOFCpS</a>
&mdash; BMJ (@bmj_company) <a href="https://twitter.com/bmj_company/status/1031674778757877760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 20, 2018</a>
</blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>&nbsp;Approximately one in 20 Danish children (4-5%) had at least one parent diagnosed with cancer.&nbsp;Children who&nbsp;had a parent with cancer&nbsp;achieved a slightly lower final GPA in ninth grade and had a higher risk of low educational attainment (relative risk ratio [RRR] =&nbsp;1.20; 95%&thinsp;CI,&nbsp;1.14-1.25) and attenuated income at&nbsp;30&nbsp;years (RRR=1.11; 95%&thinsp;CI,&nbsp;1.06-1.16).&nbsp;Overall, the results&nbsp;suggested substantial deterioration in achievements in&nbsp;those whose&nbsp;parent had a severe cancer type (RRR=1.52; 95%&thinsp;CI, 1.39-1.66) or if the parent died of cancer (RRR=1.61; 95%&thinsp;CI,&nbsp;1.49-1.75).&nbsp;<a href="https://proddocwire.wpengine.com/hematology-oncology/exercise-reduced-mortality/">Study links exercise with reduced mortality in childhood cancer survivors.</a>&nbsp;Source:&nbsp;<a href="https://jech.bmj.com/content/early/2018/07/11/jech-2018-210472">Journal of Epidemiology &amp; Community Health&nbsp;</a>

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