Date: 31/12/2018 13:02:19
From: sarahs mum
ID: 1323300
Subject: why children get leukaemia

Fearing that this got lost in chat.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/dec/30/children-leukaemia-mel-greaves-microbes-protection-against-disease

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Date: 31/12/2018 14:46:44
From: dv
ID: 1323322
Subject: re: why children get leukaemia

sarahs mum said:


Fearing that this got lost in chat.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/dec/30/children-leukaemia-mel-greaves-microbes-protection-against-disease

very interesting but it would be good to see the rebuttal.

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Date: 31/12/2018 18:32:04
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1323439
Subject: re: why children get leukaemia

dv said:


sarahs mum said:

Fearing that this got lost in chat.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/dec/30/children-leukaemia-mel-greaves-microbes-protection-against-disease

very interesting but it would be good to see the rebuttal.

Teenage Cancer Trust is not a reliably source. The real source is https://www.nature.com/articles/s41568-018-0015-6

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Date: 31/12/2018 18:55:08
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1323450
Subject: re: why children get leukaemia

mollwollfumble said:


dv said:

sarahs mum said:

Fearing that this got lost in chat.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/dec/30/children-leukaemia-mel-greaves-microbes-protection-against-disease

very interesting but it would be good to see the rebuttal.

Teenage Cancer Trust is not a reliably source. The real source is https://www.nature.com/articles/s41568-018-0015-6

“Childhood acute leukaemia is the most common paediatric cancer in developed societies, accounting for one-third of all cases.”

Interesting

All it’s said in that Nature article is that this is a “hypothesis that would benefit from further scrutiny”. No scientific study has been carried out by the authors, nor has there been a comprehensive meta-analysis of previous scientific studies.

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