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Children raised in small, sheltered, upper-class environments have a greater chance of developing Hodgkin's disease, a form of cancer, than large families living in congested quearters, a report by two doctors associated with the School of Public Health (SPH), states...
...England Journal of Medicine article released today, Dr. Nancy Gutensohn, teaching fellow in Epidemiology at the SPH, and Dr. Phillip Cole, a former professor of Epidemiology, report that exposure at a young age to the virus which causes Hodgkin's disease can partially immunize children against the cancer. Children who live in crowded apartments, where germs spread quickly, therfore are likely to be protected from the disease...
...doctors based their conclusions on interviews with 225 people who were stricken with Hodgkin's disease between 1973 and 1977. The 225 victims represented 86 per cent of all patients with the disease between ages 15 and 39 in Boston and in Worcester, Mass. The results from the patients were compared with the experience of 447 randomly selected people...
...Hodgkin's disease kills approximately 7 100 people each year, according to the American Cancer Society. If untreated, the disease usually causes death within five years, but it can be slowed or halted if caught in its early stages...
That's what happened to Dr. John C. Long, assistant professor Pathology at Harvard-affiliated MGH, after he admitted making up the results of an experiment for an article on Hodgkin's disease which the Journal of the National Cancer Institute published last year...