New research helps explain why a deadly blood cancer often affects children with malaria

Thursday, August 13, 2015 - 15:20 in Health & Medicine

Children in equatorial Africa who suffer from malaria are at high risk of developing Burkitt's lymphoma, a highly aggressive blood cancer. A new study sheds light on the long-standing mystery of how the two diseases are connected.

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