Environmental factors may contribute to the development of some childhood cancers
Tuesday, November 10, 2015 - 07:00
in Health & Medicine
Environmental factors may be a contributory cause in the development of some childhood cancers, leading scientists have revealed. Experts have carried out pioneering analysis of neuroblastic tumours in children and young adults in northern England from 1968 to 2011. Neuroblastic tumours are cancers of a special type of cell which is involved in the development of the nervous system outside of the brain and spinal cord and they are predominantly seen in children under the age of five.