Childhood leukaemia study points to smoking fathers

Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 07:31 in Health & Medicine

Research from Western Australia’s Telethon Institute for Child Health Research finds that heavy smoking by fathers around the time of conception greatly increases the risk of the child developing Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (ALL), the most common form of childhood cancer.

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