Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Another happy thought just to make your day

It appears that a mother with cancer can pass it to her baby before birth.

In theory, any cancer cells that manage to cross the placenta into the baby's bloodstream should be targeted for destruction by the child's immune system. But there are records of 17 cases of a mother and baby appearing to share the same cancer - usually leukaemia or melanoma.

Here's the report.

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