Health Benefits of Temporary Infections

Infectious Diseases and Risk of Leukemia and Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma

Captured 2023-03-14
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The aim of this investigation was to evaluate the association between common infectious diseases and the risk of hematological malignancies in an adult population.

Occurrence of childhood diseases (measles, rubella, chickenpox, mumps, pertussis and scarlet fever) was slightly inversely associated with the risk of both malignancies