[ RadSafe ] Radiation, chemicals and power lines are not sign ificant in childhood leukemia

[Franta, Jaroslav]

This sounds an awful lot like hormesis :

<quote>
Roman's team set out to test whether exposure to infections very early in
life could somehow train the immune system to protect against the cancer.

They focused on acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, a common form of the disease
that usually strikes between the ages of two and five - the time most
children start going to playgroups. The team found that children who
attended day care during the first three months of life had half the normal
risk of developing the disease (C. Gilham et al. Br. Med. J.
doi:10.1136/bmj. 38428.521042.8F; 2005).

Attention is now turning to how to prevent leukaemia.
Encouraging parents to send their children to playgroups early in life is
one obvious option.
<end quote>


Jaro 


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Another interesting article at
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v434/n7037/full/4341058b.html
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