More leukemias in children living close to heavily used roads

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-09/ind-sol091715.php

Public Release: 17-Sep-2015
Study of leukemias in children living close to heavily used roads
INSERM (Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale)

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the research team considered all 2,760 cases of leukaemia diagnosed in children under 15 years of age in metropolitan France over the 2002-2007 period. The results show that the incidence of new cases of myeloblastic leukaemia (418 of 2,760 cases of leukaemia) was 30% higher in children in the population whose residence was located within 150 m of heavily used roads, and had a combined length of over 260 m within this radius. In contrast, this association was not observed for the more common, lymphoblastic type of leukaemia (2,275 cases).

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