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Maternal diabetes raises childhood cancer risk

Deepa Koli   |   Clinical Summary   |   30 September 2022
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Maternal diabetes increases the risk for certain types of cancers in children, according to an analysis of 2 large population-based registries published online in the  British Journal of Cancer .

Most notably, researchers found an elevated risk for glioma among children who had been prenatally exposed to type 1 diabetes in one registry and...

          

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