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Malaria infection associated with cancer risk in children

Malaria infection associated with cancer risk in children

New data published in the discovery of the role of Plasmodium Falciparum (malaria) in the development of Burkitt (BL) lymphoma, the most common cancer in children in equatorial Africa and New Guinea. BL has been associated with the malaria P. Falciparum since 1958, but the basic mechanism of how it led to cancer remained a […]