Childhood Leukaemia
Race/ethnicity and the risk of childhood leukaemia: a case-control study in California.
... became leukaemia cases outside of California, we would underestimate the ...developing childhood leukaemia, a rare cancer, is quite ...of childhood leukaemia cases compared with ...
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Folate deficiency as predisposing factor for childhood leukaemia: a review of the literature
... expression. These processes are known to be altered in chronic diseases, including cancer and cardiovascular diseases. Main body: This review focuses on the association between folate intake and the risk of ...
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Early markers of cardiovascular injury in childhood leukaemia survivors treated with anthracycline chemotherapy
... the leukaemia survivors com- pared to the healthy ...their childhood cancer survivors who were previously undiagnosed with cardiac dysfunction and treated with cumulative anthracycline doses <150 mg·m 2 ...
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Folate-related Genes Polymorphisms Associated with the Risk of Childhood Leukaemia in the Malaysian Population
... between childhood leukaemia patients and controls and this is similar to that reported by Gemmati et al in 2004 ...decreasing leukaemia risk (OR = ...
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Proximity to overhead power lines and childhood leukaemia: an international pooled analysis
... We examined the effects of confounder adjustments on risk estimates. Confounders examined included residential mobility (moving between the time of birth and diagnosis) for fi ve studies, type of dwelling (single-family ...
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Statistical adjustment of genotyping error in a case–control study of childhood leukaemia
... Background: Genotyping has become more cost-effective and less invasive with the use of buccal cell sampling. However, low or fragmented DNA yields from buccal cells collected using FTA cards often requires additional ...
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What are the long term effects of treatment on survivors of childhood leukaemia? : a review of the literature
... of childhood leukaemia survivors displayed significantly poorer scores in terms of emotional symptoms 41 ...of leukaemia when compared to healthy ...of childhood leukaemia survivors ...
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Exposure to benzene and childhood leukaemia: a pilot case-control study
... and childhood leukaemia 18–21 ; however, negative fi ndings have also been ...of childhood leukaemia in relation to estimated exposure to benzene was observed in a small Italian study, 28 but ...
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The usefulness of growth hormone treatment for psychological status in young adult survivors of childhood leukaemia: an open-label study
... of childhood leukaemia with reduced bone mineral density (<-1 SD) and/or low IGF-I SD-scores (<-1 SD) were selected from a group of patients, treated for ALL between 1972 and 1990 at the paediatric ...
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SETIL: Italian multicentric epidemiological case–control study on risk factors for childhood leukaemia, non hodgkin lymphoma and neuroblastoma: study population and prevalence of risk factors in Italy
... included leukaemia, NHL and neuroblastoma cases incident in 0 – 10 year olds in 1998 – 2001, registered by the Italian Association of Paediatric Haematology and Oncology (AIEOP) (accrual over 95% of estimated ...
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Clinical presentation of childhood leukaemia : a systematic review and meta-analysis
... Quality was assessed as “acceptable” or “unacceptable” in three domains: definition of leukaemia, selection of cases, and methods for extracting data on included cases. “Acceptable” for case definition required ...
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Rheumatic symptoms in childhood leukaemia and lymphoma-a ten-year retrospective study
... Our results support previous reports that suggest that pain disproportionate to physical findings, accompanied by haematologic alterations and pain not permanently alleviated by NSAIDs, strongly suggest the presence of a ...
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Incidence and Pattern of Childhood Leukaemia in Basrah, Iraq during 2003-2007
... with childhood cancer, increased with decreasing gross domestic products and with increasing infant mortality, suggesting that boys are increasingly more likely to be affected than girls with increasing economic ...
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Leukaemia
... acute leukaemia and was referred to John McMichael at ...of childhood leukaemia; he asked if she would be prepared to let her husband receive this ...of leukaemia that would now be called M5 – ...
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The Role of STAT3 in the Pathogenesis of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia
... myeloid leukaemia, myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs) and chronic myeloid leukaemia and myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) (Arber et ...myeloid leukaemia (Huang et ...lymphocytic leukaemia ...
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APPLICATION OF SPATIAL IFCM IN LEUKAEMIA CELLS
... The segmented images with the application of sIFCM provide better clarity and understanding of presence of leukemia cells than that of conventional FCM and IFCM. As an extension, the sIFCM as shown above, is applied to ...
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The anti cancer potential of polyphenols in the treatment of leukaemia
... p53 induces Bax, which leads to activation of the intrinsic apoptotic pathway. AKT promotes pro-apoptotic Bad to be sequestered. Therefore a lack of p53 or PTEN both lead to an insensitivity to apoptosis with respect to ...
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Cytogenetic and molecular aberrations in childhood B lineage acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
... TEL/AML1 fusion observed in 25% of common ALL is associated with favorable prognosis. Presence of t(9;22)BCR-ABL1 fusion in precursor B ALL is associated with poor prognosis. Many other cytogenetic and molecular ...
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THE HAEMOLYTIC FACTOR IN THE ANAEMIA OF LYMPHATIC LEUKAEMIA
... It has been the purpose of the present investigation to determine by means of the differential transfusions of Ashby whether or not excessive haemolysis is an important factor in the pro[r] ...
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Understanding chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML)
... It can be hard to know the best way to talk to your children and explain CML without frightening them too much. Although many people live a normal life with CML, the words leukaemia and cancer can be very scary. ...
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