Fuel Stations May Pose Child Cancer Risk - Study
From: Roman Bystrianyk (rbystrianyk_at_gmail.com)
Date: 08/19/04
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Date: 18 Aug 2004 21:00:47 -0700
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"Fuel Stations May Pose Child Cancer Risk - Study", Reuters UK, August
19, 2004,
Link: http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=healthNews&storyID=6012099§ion=news
Living near a fuel station may quadruple the risk of acute leukemia in
children, research published on Thursday showed.
French scientists who carried out a study of more than 500 infants
found that a child whose home was near a fuel station or
vehicle-repair garage was four times as likely to develop leukemia as
a child whose home was further away.
And the longer a child had lived nearby, the higher the risk of
leukemia seemed to be, showed the research, published in the
Occupational and Environmental Medicine journal.
The prevalence of childhood leukemia is four in every 100,000
children, but it is the most common type of childhood cancer in
developed countries, say the researchers.
Few clear risk factors have been identified for the childhood variant,
but exposure to benzene in the workplace has been identified as a
possible factor in leukemia in adults, the authors say.
The risk appeared to be even greater for acute non-lymphoblastic
leukemia, which was seven times more common among children living
close to a fuel station or commercial garage, the research showed.
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