Exposures from Oil and Gas Development and Childhood Leukemia Risk
Lisa McKenzie, PhD, has a new American Cancer Society research grant to explore the relationships between oil and gas environmental exposures and childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). \n\nThe award builds upon her preliminary studies, which suggested that children living near oil and gas wells \u201cmay be economically disadvantaged and at greater risk for childhood leukemia.\u201d\n\nAccording to Dr. McKenzie\u2014who is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado\u2019s School of Public Health\u2014approximately 3 million children in the United States live within one mile of an oil and gas well. \n\nIn this episode, Dr. McKenzie explains how she plans to evaluate the association between exposures from oil and gas development and childhood leukemia risk and why this work is critically needed to support state and federal policy.\n\n4:51 \u2013 Lisa McKenzie, PhD, Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado\u2019s School of Public Health\n\n6:11 \u2013 On fracking and how oil and gas are removed from the ground \n\n8:38 \u2013 How tapping into unconventional resources such as shale has brought the oil and gas industry into more communities\n\n11:12 \u2013 On concerns that communities have raised about oil and gas environmental exposures\n\n13:49 \u2013 What we know about carcinogens associated with the oil and gas industry\n\n15:57 \u2013 On childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL)\n\n18:19 \u2013 Why it\u2019s particularly concerning for children to be exposed to carcinogens\n\n23:38 \u2013 Has proximity to oil and gas activity been associated with childhood ALL? \n\n25:10 \u2013 How many children in the United States live near such activity?\n\n26:07 \u2013 How she plans to build on her preliminary data using American Cancer Society funding\n\n28:35 \u2013 Why she hopes her research could make a difference for parents and children\n\n32:13 \u2013 On the state, national, and global policies for oil and gas environmental practices\n\n34:07 \u2013 How ACS funding will allow her to continue her research\n\n35:46 \u2013 A message she\u2019d like to share with cancer patients, survivors, and caregivers