Individuals who were brought up in a livestock farm have a higher risk of developing blood cancers compared to other people, researchers from New Zealand and England reported in Occupational and Environmental Medicine, a BMJ publication. For those growing up in a poultry farm the risk was found to be three times higher…

A significant positive association between the risk of childhood leukaemia and levels of chlorine-containing chemicals in the atmosphere has been found by researchers in Portugal. Details are reported in the current issue of the International Journal of Environment and Health…

Seaweed extract may eventually emerge as a lymphoma treatment, according to laboratory research presented at the second AACR Dead Sea International Conference on Advances in Cancer Research: From the Laboratory to the Clinic, held here March 7-10, 2010…

A healthy dose of exercise is good medicine, even for lymphoma patients receiving chemotherapy, University of Alberta researchers have found.