"Childhood leukemia" is a term used to describe cancer that affects the blood and bone marrow of children. It refers to cancer cells that grow and multiply in these areas, which can make a child very sick.
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A separate analysis of 15 studies found that ever being breastfed compared with never being breastfed was associated with an 11 percent lower risk
of childhood leukemia.
Long - term benefits include reduced risk for childhood and adult obesity, diabetes, and
even childhood leukemia and lymphoma.
Magnetic fields generated by electric power lines near houses don't appear to
cause childhood leukemia, an authoritative new medical study has concluded.
The piece examines a burst of media coverage and public panic after some studies hinted at
raised childhood leukemia risk near power lines nearly a quarter century ago.
Chemotherapy is the main treatment
for childhood leukemia, although the dosages and drug combinations may differ.
Speaking of trouble, I once read that parents of kids
with childhood leukemia suffer more posttraumatic stress disorders and recurring nightmares than the kids themselves do.
Children who eat more than 12 hot dogs per month have nine times the normal risk of
developing childhood leukemia, a USC epidemiologist has reported in a cancer research journal.
In addition, more high - quality studies are needed to clarify the biological mechanisms underlying this association between breastfeeding and lower
childhood leukemia morbidity,» the study concludes.
Acute childhood leukemias are also divided into acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and acute myeloid leukemia (AML), depending on whether specific white blood cells called lymphyocytes or myelocytes, which are linked to immune defenses, are involved.
Breastfeeding for six months or longer was associated with a lower risk of
childhood leukemia compared with children who were never breastfed or who were breastfed for a shorter time, according to an article published online by JAMA Pediatrics.
We've heard of some recent stories where some of the formulas were pulled off the shelves, because of contaminations, and then babies that are receiving formula have a higher risk of middle ear infection, eczema, gastrointestinal infections, lower respiratory track diseases, asthma, the risk of type 1 and type 2 diabetes,
also childhood leukemia and sudden infant death syndrome.
[91][92] Breastfeeding may protect against sudden infant death syndrome, [93] insulin - dependent diabetes mellitus, Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, lymphoma, allergic diseases, digestive diseases, [29] obesity, develop diabetes, or
childhood leukemia later in life.
One of those early patients was a young girl named Emily Whitehead who arrived in June's clinic, «on death's door,» with an aggressive form of
relapsed childhood leukemia.
Several population studies over the past 17 years have pointed to a weak link between EMF exposure in the home and certain cancers,
particularly childhood leukemia, prompting widespread media coverage of the alleged problem.
Although medical advances have dramatically improved outcomes in certain cancers — treatment of testicular cancer and
childhood leukemia now routinely lead to cures — when it comes to many other cancers, modern medicine has yet to come close to nature's handiwork in inexplicably producing spontaneous remission without apparent side effects for people like John Matzke and Alice Epstein, who have experienced the rarest hints of nature's healing mysteries.
A gene that causes a
rare childhood leukemia is the same one that was fingered several years ago as a breast cancer gene, according to a study published online 13 June by Science.
Prevalence and characteristics of metabolic syndrome in adults from the
French childhood leukemia survivors» cohort: a comparison with controls from the French population
CAR T - cell treatment, on the other hand, is being widely tested in children and has shown impressive effectiveness against the most
common childhood leukemia, called acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
A trailblazing oncologist who took on
childhood leukemia by introducing combination chemotherapy — in which anticancer drugs are given simultaneously rather than singly — retired in September after 50 years at MD Anderson.
«Maternal ingestion of bioflavonoids may induce MLL breaks and potentially translocation in utero,» they conclude, «leading to infant and
early childhood leukemias.»
«This strongly supports the notion that bioflavonoids could be a causative agent for infant and
possibly childhood leukemias,» continue the authors.
Earlier research had suggested that children living in houses near power lines had a greater chance of
getting childhood leukemia.
Turner's cousin couldn't figure out why it was so difficult to find data
on childhood leukemia treatments, considering that it seemed like a problem that could easily be solved by tech.
As one of only a handful of NANT (New Approaches to Neuroblastoma Therapy) and TACL (Therapeutic Advances
in Childhood Leukemia) consortium member institution, we offer families access to a number of trials only available at NANT and TACL institutions.
Freireich lost a parent and helped
cure childhood leukemia but, as Gladwell mentions in passing, prisoners are also two to three times more likely to have lost a parent than the rest of the population.
Children who eat more than 12 hot dogs per month have nine times the normal risk of
developing childhood leukemia, a USC epidemiologist has reported in a cancer research journal.
These include stomach viruses, ear infections, asthma, juvenile diabetes, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and
even childhood leukemia.
Extolling the many benefits of plants, Goodall juxtaposes horticultural history with more recent biomedical innovations, such as the role of rosy periwinkle as a potent weapon
against childhood leukemia.
The second study in Blood provides a concrete example of using iPSCs for drug testing, specifically for the often -
aggressive childhood leukemia, JMML.
he study reiterates earlier research which shows that prolonged exposure to airborne petroleum hydrocarbons causes «an increased risk of eye irritation and headaches, asthma symptoms,
acute childhood leukemia, acute myelogenous leukemia, and multiple myeloma.»