MOBI-KIDS celebrates the 2nd Consurtium Meeting next 29th and 30th April

On 29th and 30th April the 2nd Consortium Meeting of MOBI-KIDS project will be held in the Hotel Port Resort in Sitges with the presence of all partners. During these days they will talk about this international case-control study which aims to assess the potential associations between use of communication devices and other environmental risk factors and brain tumours in young people. The coordinator is Dr Elisabeth Cardis, head of radiation programm from CREAL (Center for Research in Envrionmental Epidemiology).

The study receives funding from the European Union and from the local funding of countries who participate in the study.

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It’s an international multi-centre study involving experts from 13 European and non-European countries will examine the potential associations between use of communication devices and other environmental risk factors and brain tumours. The study is funded by the European Union and local funding for non-EU collaborators.

Over a study period of five years, nearly 2000 young people between 10 to 24 years with brain tumours and a similar number of young people without a brain tumour will be invited to participate in the study. A detailed questionnaire will be used covering demographic factors, residential history and questions on risk factors in the environment including the use of cellular phones of young people. After a preparatory phase of one year, the invitations to join the study will start in 2010.

The following centres will be involved from the start:

• Spain: Fundació Centre de Recerca en Epidemiologia Ambiental (CREAL), Fundació IMIM, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, University of Huelva and University of Valencia
• Australia: MONASH University
• Austria: the Medical University of Vienna
• Canada: the University of Ottawa
• France: the Association pour la Recherche Epidémiologique dans les Cancers de l’Enfant et de l’Adolescent, the Université de Lyon, Institut National de Recherche sur les Transports et leur Sécurité, Institut national de Veille Sanitaire, Unité Mixte de Recherche épidémiologique et de Surveillance Transports Travail Environnement
• Germany: the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
• Greece: the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
• Israel: the Gertner Institute for Epidemiology & Health Policy Research
• Italy: the Università degli Studi di Torino
• New Zealand: the University of Auckland
• Taiwan: the National Taiwan University College of Public Health
• The Netherlands: Universiteit Utrecht

For further information go to www.mbkds.com