How much more can Science shatter your beliefs ? Everything that we once thought to be true is falling apart and a new study about Childhood Leukaemia is probably the most weird of them all. According to a a Landmark Study, Childhool Leaukaemia is caused by keeping babies too clean and is preventable. The Study was unveiled by the Instituite of Cancer Research London.
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Infants who are not in contact with the bacteria in the first year are left more vulnerable to a devastating mutation when they catch their first cold or flu. The Researchers summarised 30 years of their study in to acute lumphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) found 5% of children are born with a “pure-leukaemia” genetic mutation. Only one in 100 among these children will go on to develop this disease, but infants with pre-leukaemia mutation are at a higher risk if they don’t come in contact with other children which share the bacteria and are brought up in environments too clean. This prevents the children from having that useful protective bacteria, so at the event of they meeting face to face with their first common infection as a baby, it can trigger a second mutation that causes leukaemia.
Lead author of this study Prof Mel Greaves said ““I have spent more than 40 years researching childhood leukaemia. It has always struck me that something big was missing, a gap in our knowledge, why otherwise he Infection was first suspected of causing this cancer around 100 years ago. The problem is not infection, the problem is lack of infection. “The findings relate to the major form of ALL, called Common B Precursor leukaemia, which make up 75% of cases. It offers hope of preventing the disease simply by exposing infants to “common and harmless bugs althy children develop leukaemia and whether this cancer is preventable. “
So the gist of it all is that exposing babies with the first stage mutation to benign microbes early in their life could be enough to protect them from developing leukaemia.
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