Pediatrics

Is Vitamin K Linked To Childhood Cancer?

Published in Cancer Weekly, February 2nd, 1998

The issue of whether injection of vitamin K in newly born children increases the risk of childhood leukemia and other cancers, remains unsolved.

A set of papers in the January 17, 1998, issue of the British Medical Journal investigated this link which was first suggested in the early 1990s.

Dr. Patricia McKinney et al. reported on a Scottish study which showed no statistically significant associations with vitamin K, which promotes blood-clotting ("Case-Control Study Of Childhood Leukaemia and Cancer in Scotland: Findings For Neonatal Intramuscular Vitamin K," BMJ, January, 1998;316(7126):713-177).

Two papers by Jane Passmore and...

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