منابع مشابه
Infection causes childhood leukemia
accounts for a third of all cancers in children under the age of 15, mostly affecting industrialized countries, being the B-precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia (pB-ALL) the most common type. The disease commonly strikes young children at the age of two to five years, and is treated with aggressive chemotherapy. In recent decades, more effective treatments have boosted survival rates and redu...
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Abstract Introduction Connection of socioeconomic status measures (such as income and education and parental addiction) to childhood leukemia are likely to vary with place and time. The aim of this study was to assess the relation between socioeconomic status and childhood leukemia. Materials and Methods a case- control study conducted on 86 case of acute lymphoblastic leukemia age 0-14 yea...
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OBJECTIVE To analyze studies that evaluated the role of infections as well as indirect measures of exposure to infection in the risk of childhood leukemia, particularly acute lymphoblastic leukemia. METHODS A search in Medline, Lilacs, and SciELO scientific publication databases initially using the descriptors "childhood leukemia" and "infection" and later searching for the words "childhood l...
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Bone marrow specimens from leukemic patients were studied in a 5 year period beginning in 1982 in Children's Medical Center of Teheran,a teaching and referral center for pediatric medicine. The slides were stained by Giemsa-Wright stains, read by at least two persons experienced in bone marrow pathology and classified according to F.A.B. recommendations. Peroxidase or Sudan black-B and P.A...
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Current hypotheses consonant with the peak in leukemia incidence in early childhood point to an infectious etiology. The authors examined the effect of postnatal exposures predicted to affect early immune functioning, including childhood vaccinations, illness, medication use, and breastfeeding patterns. Children 0-15 years of age diagnosed with leukemia from 1990 to 1994 and resident within pri...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Aging
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1945-4589
DOI: 10.18632/aging.100815