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Table 1 Items collected during the phone interview

From: Studying the impact of early life exposures to pesticides on the risk of testicular germ cell tumors during adulthood (TESTIS project): study protocol

Categories

Cases and controls

Mothers (or closest relatives)

General information

Medical history and long term treatments (childhood); Birth characteristics; Geographical origin; Socio-economic status

Medical history (mother); Treatments during pregnancy; Age and morphology at birth; Birth characteristics (son); Socio-economic status

Occupational exposures

Entire job history (+tasks and company name and addresses); Specific questions on pesticides, solvents, welding fumes, heavy metals and plastic exposures

Job history from the beginning to the 17 years of the son (mother)/job history from 1 year before the conception to the 17 years of the son (father); Specific questions on pesticides, solvents, welding fumes, heavy metals and plastic exposures

Environmental exposures

Whole residential history and households characteristics; Addresses of schools

Residential history from 1 year before son’s conception to the 17 years of the son

Domestic exposures

Domestic use of pesticides gardening, pet treatment, indoor usage of insecticides or fungicides, and lice treatment (at puberty)

Domestic use of pesticides gardening, pet treatment, indoor usage of insecticides or fungicides, and lice treatment (son: perinatal period and at puberty)

Lifestyle

Smoking status; Drug use; Physical activity

Smoking status; Drug use