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Article: Blood Transfusion Is Independent Risk Factor For Women.(blood transfusion may cause a higher risk for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in women)
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- Women's Health Weekly
- Article date:
- June 28, 2001
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2001 JUN 28 -- (NewsRx Network) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer -- Blood transfusions may put women at a higher risk for some types of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) and other blood cell cancers, researchers in a multicenter study say.
J.R. Cerhan, of the Mayo Clinic, and colleagues from the Universities of Iowa, South Carolina, and Minnesota examined data from almost 38,000 middle-age or elderly women from Iowa to test the suggested link between allogeneic blood transfusion -- receiving blood from a genetically mismatched donor -- and hematologic malignancy.
They found a strong association between allogeneic blood transfusions and several ...