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Adolescent Risk-Taking, Cancer Risk, and Life Course Approaches to Prevention

Year: 2013

Type: article

Abstract: Adolescent risk-taking may have long-term consequences for adult cancer risk. Behaviors such as smoking and sexual activity, commonly initiated during adolescence, may result--decades later--in cancer. Life course epidemiology focuses on unique vulnerabilities at specific development periods and their importance to later development of disease. A life course epidemiological perspective that integrates social and biological risk processes can help frame our understanding how specific adult cancers develop. Moreover, life course perspectives augment traditional public health approaches to prevention by emphasizing the importance of unique windows of opportunity for prevention.

Source: Journal of Adolescent Health

DOI: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2013.02.017

Authors: John S. Santelli, Kavita Sivaramakrishnan, Zoe R. Edelstein, Linda P. Fried

Institutions: Columbia University, HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies

Language: English

Topic: Cancer Risks and Factors

Subfield: Oncology

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $3,670