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AAP Grand Rounds 15:3-4 (2006)
© 2006 American Academy of Pediatrics

INFECTIOUS DISEASES

No Association Between Childhood Vaccines and Risk of Leukemia

Source: Ma X, Does MB, Metayer C, et al. Vaccination history and risk of childhood leukaemia. Int J Epidemiol. 2005;34:1100–1109.[Abstract/Free Full Text]

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Investigators from the University of California-Berkeley, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, and Yale University, New Haven, Conn., used the dataset from the Northern California Childhood Leukemia Study (NCCLS) to investigate the potential role of vaccines (DTP/DTaP, poliomyelitis, MMR, hepatitis B, and Hib) as risk factors for childhood leukemia. The NCCLS population included the counties surrounding the San Francisco Bay area (17 counties between 1995 and 1998 and 35 between 1999 and 2002). All children 0 to 14 years old from these counties with new cases of leukemia were eligible for inclusion in the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Mobeen H. Rathore, MD, FAAP
Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology, University of Florida, Jacksonville, FL