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Allergies thought to lower cancer risk

Allergies thought to lower cancer risk

Fans of natural beauty maybe interested to read a recent report published in the Daily Telegraph which said there is evidence that sufferers of allergies are significantly less likely to develop some types of cancer.

Scientists at Minnesota University found children with allergies to airborne substances were 40 per cent less likely to develop leukaemia than other youngsters while asthma sufferers were 30 per cent less likely to get ovarian cancer than others.

Doctors at Cornell University in New York State found children with airborne allergies also had reduced rates of throat, skin, lung and intestinal cancer.  Canadian studies showed that having an allergy or hay fever lowered the chances of getting pancreatic cancer by up to 58 per cent.

Dr Ronald Crystal, chief of pulmonary and critical-care medicine at Weill Cornell Medical Centre, told the Daily Mail: “Allergies are a general activation of our immune systems. It's hard to prove, and I've heard some scepticism, but it's a concept in this field and the studies add to that"

Posted by Sarah Smith


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