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..To study the occurrence of cancer amongst patients with diabetes mellitus (DM)...

..The high relative risk of malignant lymphoma immediately after KS was based on a limited number of cases, and this observation is unlikely to indicate a common etiology...

..Thus the data confirm the Asian origin of the Greenlandic (Eskimo) population and indicates that some (CGG)n alleles have remained stable for 15-30,000 years, since the population of the New World arrived from Asia via the Bering Strait...

..In addition, the general cancer profile among patients who have had infectious mononucleosis has been sparsely studied...

..If substantiated in other settings, NHL patients with prior non-melanoma skin cancer may constitute a subgroup of lymphoma patients in need of particular therapeutic attention...

..The remarkable and parallel time trends observed in young men and women in recent years indicate that factors other than AIDS must be considered...

..09 [0.72 to 1.60]). Women diagnosed with poliomyelitis, in particular paralytic polio, may be at increased risk of breast cancer. There was no association between malignancies of the CNS and poliomyelitis...

..The epidemic of KSHV/HHV-8 is now declining. These findings are concordant with the view that KSHV/HHV-8 may have been actively spread simultaneously with and by the same activities that lead to the spread of HIV...

..To what extent these findings indicate a role for bacteria in lymphoma pathogenesis requires further investigation...

..3 (Iceland) and 0.5 (the Faroe Islands). These are among the highest rates ever reported. No explanation for the high rates of Kaposi's sarcoma in these two North Atlantic communities could be identified...

..Several reports have suggested a link between infection with Borrelia burgdorferi (the spirochete causing Lyme disease) and development of cutaneous B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (CBCL)...

..These observations cannot be explained by registrational procedures or known risk factors for KS, and argue that environmental factors play an important role in the development of the disease...

..24, P = 0.42, 13 pairs) did the incidences of the two conditions correlate. This absence of correlation does not support the hypothesis that Kaposi's sarcoma and multiple myeloma share a common aetiology, such as HHV-8...

..However, their combined effect and possible interaction on MS risk is not known...

..Here, we review the epidemiological evidence linking infections with malignant lymphoma...

..These data indicate strong genetic and/or environmental risk factors for childhood ALL that are restricted to specific ALL subtypes, which must be taken into account, when performing epidemiological studies to reveal etiological factors...

..Thus, the data support that (CGG)(n) instability is correlated to the length of uCGG...

..Multiple sclerosis (MS) and other autoimmune diseases might cluster. Our aim was to estimate the relative risk (RR) of other autoimmune diseases among MS patients and their first-degree relatives in a population-based cohort study...

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