The researchers point out, however, that the total number of
leukaemia cases is still very low.
Not exact matches
These include the behaviour of the Italian government in the aftermath of Chernobyl, the basis of decision - making in civil nuclear power in Switzerland and France, and the controversy over the supposed effects of radiation doses to fathers on their offspring at Sellafield (a large
case control study, which has recently been published, contradicts the views in the book), and the Black enquiry into childhood
leukaemias in the vicinity of the plant.
A couple of years ago we used genetic markers to prove that in one
case the baby's
leukaemia was indeed maternal in origin.
«There are also around 30
cases in the literature (over many decades) of what appears to be mother to foetus transmission of cancer — usually melanoma or
leukaemia.
So rather than experiencing frank viral diseases such as the «flu, measles, mumps and rubella (and, in the
case of dogs, parvovirus and distemper), we are allowing the viruses to win anyway — but with cancer,
leukaemia and other inflammatory or autoimmune (self - attacking) diseases taking their place.
In the
case at hand, Novartis had filed a marketing authorizing application with the EMA) for Glivec ® (Imatinib), which was approved in November 2001 as an orphan medicinal product for the treatment of chronic myeloid
leukaemia in adults (CML).