No higher risk of acute leukaemia in close relatives

Thursday, December 15, 2011 - 08:03 in Health & Medicine

(Medical Xpress) -- Parents, siblings and children of patients with the most common form of acute leukemia do not run a higher risk of developing the disease as was once believed, according to a new study from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet.

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