Sex-related differences in genetics, exposures, behaviours and treatment exist even in preadolescent populations and it therefore is necessary to always report sex-specific data in both childhood and adolescent/young adult cancers.
As Kaufman and Cooper 25 state, there are two important points here: (i) these variables are not confounders but important in the complex context impinging on the outcome (e.g. oral disease) and (ii) it is not possible to control for everything to make two groups interchangeable with respect to all exposures, behaviours, etc. that bear on oral disease.
The description of the consumer groups who use the same elements to define quality provided a useful insight into consumer choices and potential risk-exposure behaviours.
Finally, the study has implications for public health strategies such as SunSmart, as many participants were unaware of sensible sun-exposure behaviours, and educational strategies to promote skin awareness, self-examination and timely consultation.
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In particular, it is possible that residual confounding by insufficiently specified UV exposure could explain the observed association between radon and NMSC, as we only have data on geographical bright sunshine hours variation, and not sun exposure behaviour.
One model assumes that the climate, ethnicity, sun exposure behaviour and population differences that lead to the higher incidence of melanoma in Australia do not affect the ratio of melanoma to NMSC.
The Code is a preventive tool aimed to reduce the cancer burden by informing people how to avoid or reduce carcinogenic exposures, adopt behaviours to reduce the cancer risk, or to participate in organised intervention programmes.
We included questions on childhood and adolescent exposures and behaviours, as well as those in adulthood, and where appropriate (e.g., alcohol consumption, exercise) asked about these variables by age, to allow exposure histories to be built.
These changes in risks of migrating populations after living in a new environment suggest that the degree of difference by place and over time could be explained by differences in exposures and behaviours [ 3, 4].
