LEEDS MEDICAL STATISTICS GROUP SEMINAR
The next seminar will be:
HEATHER DICKINSON
Department of Child Health, University of Newcastle.
"Evidence for an infectious aetiology of childhood leukaemia"
2pm, Friday 23rd January, 2000.
Abstract:
MS Sans SerifThe population mixing hypothesis suggests that migration may expose susceptible
individuals to infections to which they have low immunity and to which
leukaemia is a rare and abnormal response. If such an effect acted early in
life, we might also expect births of children who develop leukaemia to (i) show
seasonality and (ii) be closer than expected in space and time to births of
children who die of infection at an early age. We have investigated these
hypotheses on children born in Cumbria, 1950-93 (excluding Seascale, as it gave
rise to the population mixing hypothesis). We will present results which are
consistent in indicating an infectious factor, acting around or before birth,
in the aetiology of ALL/NHL in younger children.
ArialSeminars are held at Leeds University's Institute for Epidemiology at 34 Hyde
Terrace, Leeds.
Everybody welcome.
Further details and directions are available from Darren Greenwood.
Email: 0000,8000,0000[log in to unmask]
Phone: 0113 233 4831
Fax: 0113 233 3952
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