Medical History, Lifestyle, and Occupational Risk Factors for Hairy Cell Leukemia: The InterLymph Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Subtypes Project

Conclusions
Our observations of an increased risk of HCL from farming exposures and decreased risk from smoking exposures, independent of one another, support a multifactorial origin and an etiological specificity of HCL compared with other non-Hodgkin lymphoma subtypes. The positive association with height is a novel finding that needs replication.

Source: JNCI Monographs - August 30, 2014 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Monnereau, A., Slager, S. L., Hughes, A. M., Smith, A., Glimelius, B., Habermann, T. M., Berndt, S. I., Staines, A., Norman, A. D., Cerhan, J. R., Sampson, J. N., Morton, L. M., Clavel, J. Tags: Article Source Type: research