Study links childhood cancer, power lines
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A British study finds that children who live near high-voltage electrical power lines may have twice the risk of some kinds of cancer.
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Living near a petrol station may quadruple the risk of acute leukaemia in children, according to fresh research.
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More than 800 people in northern Sweden may have cancer as a result of the fallout that spewed over the region after the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986, according to a study by Swedish scientists.
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Cancer in children and adolescents in Europe has risen steadily over the past three decades but survival rates have improved, researchers said on Friday.
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More than 800 people in northern Sweden may have cancer as a result of the fallout that spewed over the region after the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986, according to a new study by Swedish scientists.
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Children who live next to a petrol station are four times more likely to develop acute leukaemia than other children in the same area, suggests new research.
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NEW YORK  - A substantial minority of young adults who have survived a childhood malignancy will have at least one severe health problem, according to a report presented here Tuesday at a media briefing of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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Living near a petrol station may quadruple the risk for children of developing leukaemia, new research says.
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A substantial minority of young  adults who have survived a childhood malignancy will have at  least one severe health problem, according to a report  presented here Tuesday at a media briefing of the Journal of  the American Medical Association.
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Living near a fuel station may quadruple the risk of acute leukemia in children, research published on Thursday showed.
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By Ed Edelson, HealthDay Reporter    HealthDayNews -- Could electric light pose a cancer threat?    It might seem like the wildest of paranoid beliefs, but a growing number of scientists suspect it might be true. The reason: Turning on the lights after dark may affect a small number of "clock genes" that play a major role in controlling how cells live, die and function, these researchers suggest...
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NEW YORK  - Teenagers who've survived childhood cancers may be more likely than their siblings to be depressed or anxious, have attention problems or show antisocial behaviors, researchers report.
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Suffering from some kinds of allergy as a child could increase the risk of developing blood cancer in later life, a new study suggests.
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Scientific evidence has emerged for the first time indicating that the fall-out from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986 may have raised cancer rates in western Europe.
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Fathers exposed to radiation pass on the damage to their children, research suggests.
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Federal researchers have found children involved in a northern Nevada leukemia cluster are more prone to have a variation in a gene that helps combat unsafe chemicals, and more research is needed to learn the reasons why.
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THURSDAY, Oct. 14 (HealthDayNews) -- University of Utah researchers have identified some of the genetic events that cause a particularly deadly childhood muscle cancer,