[h=1]History of chicken pox may reduce risk of brain cancer later in life[/h]
Graciela Gutierrez
Houston, TX - Mar 30, 2016
The chicken pox is one of those pesky illness that affects kids and pains their parents, but it may offer some positive health benefits later in life, experts believe ? a reduced risk for developing glioma.
In one of the largest studies to date, an international consortium led by researchers in the
Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine reported an inverse relationship between a history of chicken pox and glioma, a type of brain cancer, meaning that children who have had the chicken pox may be less likely to develop brain cancer.
The Baylor team led by Dr. Melissa Bondy, a McNair Scholar and associate director for cancer prevention and population sciences at Baylor, and Dr. E. Susan Amirian, assistant professor in the Duncan Cancer Center at Baylor, reported their results in the journal
Cancer Medicine. ...
