Birth Defects and Childhood Cancer
Birth defects are common across the United States and other countries. Studies show that Children with major birth defects, are at high risk of developing cancer during childhood development. Birth defects such as neuroblastoma, retinoblastoma and hepatoblastoma, all which typically develop in early childhood. These birth defects can be caused by several different reason which are associated with genetic factors as well as environmental factors. Most factors that are associated with birth defects can be altered through the changes of structure and function, or even through lifestyle variations related to the failure of the organs (Miller, 2011). Associations of childhood birth defects have reported Down …show more content…
The staff routinely visits hospitals, and other birth centers to determine how many cases are abnormal. These cases are identified as infant and fetus structural or chromosomal anomaly, whose mother is resident in the Registry coverage area, at the time of delivery. The Texas Birth Defect Registry includes all cases of birth defects that are diagnosed by a physician and recorded in medical records. Sometimes the Registry is limited with information found in hospitals. Because some diagnoses with qualifiers such as “suggest” or “rule out “are excluded from studies and statistical analyses. Some birth defects associated with normal causes, such as preterm, may not cause a significant impact on the child life. The information gathered is systematically put into web-based data system and undergoes an extensive quality check. (Miller, 2011). This includes a review by clinical geneticists of roughly 60% of registry records on bases of the most problematic …show more content…
Each birth defect is assigned diagnostic certainty, roughly 96.7% are definite and 3, 3% are possible or probable. Most of the pregnancy outcomes are included, such as livebirths and spontaneous fetal defects (Miller, 2011). Based on the information covered by the Registry, cases are recorded on birth certificates. This is done by determinist matching in contrast with individual identifiers such as names, date of birth, and other important factors that distinguish children at birth (Miller,
Birth defects are common across the United States and other countries. Studies show that Children with major birth defects, are at high risk of developing cancer during childhood development. Birth defects such as neuroblastoma, retinoblastoma and hepatoblastoma, all which typically develop in early childhood. These birth defects can be caused by several different reason which are associated with genetic factors as well as environmental factors. Most factors that are associated with birth defects can be altered through the changes of structure and function, or even through lifestyle variations related to the failure of the organs (Miller, 2011). Associations of childhood birth defects have reported Down …show more content…
The staff routinely visits hospitals, and other birth centers to determine how many cases are abnormal. These cases are identified as infant and fetus structural or chromosomal anomaly, whose mother is resident in the Registry coverage area, at the time of delivery. The Texas Birth Defect Registry includes all cases of birth defects that are diagnosed by a physician and recorded in medical records. Sometimes the Registry is limited with information found in hospitals. Because some diagnoses with qualifiers such as “suggest” or “rule out “are excluded from studies and statistical analyses. Some birth defects associated with normal causes, such as preterm, may not cause a significant impact on the child life. The information gathered is systematically put into web-based data system and undergoes an extensive quality check. (Miller, 2011). This includes a review by clinical geneticists of roughly 60% of registry records on bases of the most problematic …show more content…
Each birth defect is assigned diagnostic certainty, roughly 96.7% are definite and 3, 3% are possible or probable. Most of the pregnancy outcomes are included, such as livebirths and spontaneous fetal defects (Miller, 2011). Based on the information covered by the Registry, cases are recorded on birth certificates. This is done by determinist matching in contrast with individual identifiers such as names, date of birth, and other important factors that distinguish children at birth (Miller,