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5. medicine & health: Medicine: Hematology:
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scientists at University college London reported at the American Society of Hematology meeting in San diego, California, on 11 december (A c. Nathwani et al.
popsci_2013 01048.txt
and Morphology and the Institute of Biological sciences at University of Brasilia and it was published in the Journal of Hematology
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Notably the study did not find the same association in men which suggests a possible gender-specific role in chronic stimulation of the immune system that may lead to the development of hematologic cancers.
The findings are published online ahead of the December print issue of the American Journal of Hematology.
and hematologic malignancies wrote first author Mazyar Shadman M d. M p h. a senior fellow in the Clinical Research Division at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research center.
Participants were followed for a median of eight years until they withdrew from the study moved away had a cancer diagnosis other than hematologic malignancy
Incidence of hematologic malignancies and other cancers was identified via the Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) cancer registry of western Washington.
Of the participants 681 developed a hematologic malignancy during the follow-up period. These participants were more likely to be male to have two
A history of allergies to airborne antigens was associated with a higher risk of hematologic malignancies.
and hematologic malignancies and found that a history of allergies to plants grass and trees was associated significantly with mature B-cell neoplasms one of four major categories of lymphoma.
It is tempting to speculate that the additional effect of allergy may reach statistical significance in women because of their lower baseline risk for the development of hematologic malignancies compared to men the authors wrote.
Meanwhile the authors acknowledge the study's limitations namely the reliance on self-reporting of allergies the limitation of soliciting answers about current allergies only and particularly the limited number of hematologic cancers for each subset of allergy types.
Given the limited number of cases within each subtype of hematologic cancer the risk estimates need to be interpreted with caution
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The study appears online ahead of print this month in the journal Critical reviews in Oncology/Hematology.
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For doctors like Bayard Powell M d. chief of hematology and oncology at Wake Forest Baptist's Comprehensive Cancer Center new drugs designed to enhance anti-tumor immune responses are beginning to play a major
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