Childhood leukemia: Ultra-clean homes may prove hazardous!
Childhood leukemia: Ultra-clean homes may prove hazardous! PTI | Updated on: 22 May 2018, 03:26:58 PM
London:
Keeping babies in ultra-clean environments, with no exposure to common infections and away from other infants, during the first year of their lives can trigger leukemia - the most common type of childhood cancer - a study has found. Researchers from the Institute of Cancer Research in the UK assessed the most comprehensive body of evidence ever collected on acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), a cancer of blood-forming tissues. The research, published in the journal Nature Reviews Cancer, concludes that the disease is caused through a two-step process of genetic mutation and exposure to infection that means it may be preventable with treatments to stimulate or prime the immune system in infancy.
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