Leukemia

Infectious diseases in the first year of life may protect against ALL

Published in Cancer Weekly, March 2nd, 2004

Study supports the hypothesis that early common infections may play a protective role in the etiology of childhood leukemia, although this effect was not more marked for common acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).

"The objective of the present study was to investigate the role of early common infections and perinatal characteristics in the etiology of childhood common leukemia. A case-control study was conducted from 1995 to 1998 in France, and included 473 incident cases of acute leukemia (AL) (408 ALL), 65 acute myeloid leukemia (AML) age-, sex- and region-matched with 567 population-based controls," researchers in France report.

"Data on the...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2004-03-02)

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