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Childhood leukaemia, population mixing, and paternal occupation
The possible infective origin of childhood leukaemia has been
the subject of much recent attention.1 Fear
et al2 have taken up my
suggestion that my necessarily limited examination of childhood
leukaemia relative to levels of paternal occupational contact in the
general population3 be extended and (as in my study) found
no evidence of a general increase in risk when fathers have jobs
involving contact with many people. However, in reporting my hypothesis
they did not bring out that the principal question considered in my
study did not concern the general population, but rather whether there
was a relation with paternal occupational contacts "in
population-mixing situations associated with an excess of childhood
leukaemia".3 I investigated this question3 with data from previous studies that were carried out to test the view
that it is a rare response to some unidentified infection, and that
situations
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