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Cancer Risk Factors
Maternal history of miscarriage associated with increased risk of childhood AML
November 24th, 2005
Scientists claimed a maternal history of miscarriage was associated with an increased risk of childhood acute myeloid leukemia (AML). "The authors evaluated the relation between maternal pregnancy loss, birth characteristics, and childhood leukemia in the Northern California Childhood Leukemia Study. Incident cases of childhood leukemia (age 0-14 years) were rapidly ascertained, and controls were randomly selected from birth records and individually matched to cases. A total of 366 cases [313 acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and 53 AML] and 460 controls were included in this analysis," researchers in the United States reported. "The biological...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-11-24)
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