How do environmental chemicals and pollutants increase cancer risk for pregnant women and their children?

Researchers from PRHE explored this question among an economically, geographically, ethnically, and racially diverse group of pregnant women and children in the San Francisco Bay Area and California’s Central Valley with funding for phase one of a $14 million grant from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health.

The UCSF Discovering cancer Risks from Environmental contaminants And Maternal/child health (DREAM) research project collected and is now analyzing data and biospecimen samples from participants' second trimester of pregnancy. Researchers are exploring how chemicals in the environment that disrupt endocrine and other systems increase cancer risk.

Learn more about the DREAM Study: https://ceecr.org/cohorts/dream

This research was supported by the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number UG3CA265845. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.