By Mike Martin for the Journal of the National Cancer Institute
Research reported in 2011 from several
American and European universities supports the decades-old hypothesis
that people
with allergies have a low incidence of glioma: up to
four times lower than that of non-allergy sufferers in some studies.
First identified two decades ago, the inverse
relationship between allergies and glioma “is one of the most
consistent associations
in the brain tumor literature,” wrote Darrell Bigner,
M.D., Ph.D., director of the Duke University Tisch Brain Tumor Center,
in a February 2011 Cancer Epidemiology paper.
Although past studies have failed to confirm the inverse allergy association in meningioma and acoustic neuroma, they have
confirmed it for glial cells.
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