Impact of environment on pediatric and adult brain tumors: The 2023 Brain Tumor Epidemiology Consortium meeting report

Clin Neuropathol. 2023 Dec 5. doi: 10.5414/NP301590. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe Brain Tumor Epidemiology Consortium (BTEC) is an international organization with membership of individuals from the scientific community with interests related to brain tumor epidemiology including surveillance, classification, methodology, etiology, and factors associated with morbidity and mortality. The 2023 annual BTEC meeting entitled "Impact of Environment on Pediatric and Adult Brain Tumors" was held in Lexington, KY, USA on May 22 - 24, 2023. The meeting gathered scientists from the United States, Canada, Australia, and Europe and included four keynote sessions covering genomic, epigenomic, and metabolomic considerations in brain tumor epidemiology, cancer clusters, environmental risk factors, and new approaches to cancer investigation. The meeting also included three abstract sessions and a brainstorming session. A summary of the meeting content is included in this report.PMID:38050756 | DOI:10.5414/NP301590

Source: Clinical Neuropathology - December 5, 2023 Category: Pathology Authors: Kimberly J Johnson Luc Bauchet Roberta McKean-Cowdin Carol Kruchko Ching C Lau Quinn T Ostrom Michael E Scheurer John Villano Yan Yuan Source Type: research