Friday 5 September 2014

Risk factors identified for certain lymphoma subtypes

In a large international collaborative analysis of risk factors for non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), scientists were able to quantify risk associated with medical history, lifestyle factors, family history of blood or lymph-borne cancers, and occupation for 11 different NHL subtypes, including less common subtypes. Analyses from a pooled population of data from over 100 scientists included 17,471 people with NHL and 23,096 without the disease. Read more here.

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