Sunday, December 18, 2011

Parents smoking during pregnancy than mothers of infected children with cancer

Parents smoking during pregnancy than mothers of infected children with cancer
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Australian study found that smoking men, their wives during pregnancy increases the likelihood of a child with acute lymphoblastic leukemia by 15%, while smoking does not cause pregnant women to their babies infected with the disease.
According to a bulletin issued by the team of scientists headed by Elizabeth ms of the Telethon Institute for Health Research of the children that "sperm, which includes a nuclear-amino damaged by tobacco able to fertilize the egg, the embryo will lead to disease."
The study involved nearly 300 children with the disease and sent them questions about parental smoking, as these children were compared with 800 children in the same age without the disease.
As a result, research on the smoking habits of parents of children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, that parents who smoke 20 cigarettes a day at least during the gestation period of their wives, putting their children in the future to the disease by more up to 44%.
Commenting on the results of the study Aloastralah said a professor at the University of California, Patricia Baffler it clearly refers to the close relationship between tobacco and cancer in children, something to not receive wide attention in the scientific community until recently.
Note that the acute lymphoblastic leukemia is the most common cancers in children, but cases of infection are still rare, so catch it 3-5 children among the 100 thousand children.

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