According to the senior author Ken Smith, Ph.D., a population health researcher at Huntsman Cancer Institute and a distinguished professor of family studies and population science at the University of Utah, «This study shows that early - life socioeconomic status, based on factors such as parental occupation at birth, may be associated with cancer risk in adulthood. (sciencedaily.com)
Researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah announced today the results of a study that found that circumstances in childhood, such as parental occupation at birth and neighborhood income, might be associated with different risks of certain cancers later in life. (sciencedaily.com)
Figure 1 shows distributions of Year 9 students» reading abilities for different parental occupation groups. (teachermagazine.com.au)