{"id":21581,"date":"2019-01-26T10:39:09","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T23:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=21581"},"modified":"2019-01-26T10:39:14","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T23:39:14","slug":"childhood-diseases-protect-against-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=21581","title":{"rendered":"Childhood Diseases Protect Against Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"824\" height=\"960\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Childhood_Diseases_Protect_Against_Cancer.jpg\" alt=\"Childhood Diseases Protect Against Cancer\" class=\"wp-image-21582\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Childhood_Diseases_Protect_Against_Cancer.jpg 824w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Childhood_Diseases_Protect_Against_Cancer-258x300.jpg 258w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Childhood_Diseases_Protect_Against_Cancer-768x895.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Febrile infectious childhood diseases (FICDs) are associated with a lower cancer risk in adulthood. <br>\nA Swiss study found that adults are significantly protected against non-breast cancers \u2014 genital, prostate, gastrointestinal, skin, lung, ear-nose-throat, and others \u2014 if they contracted measles (odds ratio, OR = 0.45), rubella (OR = 0.38) or chickenpox (OR = 0.62) earlier in life:<br>\nhttps:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/m\/pubmed\/9824838\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chicken pox and reduced rates of brain cancer in adulthood:<br>\nhttps:\/\/www.bcm.edu\/news\/cancer\/chicken-pox-may-reduce-risk-of-brain-cancer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mumps and reduced rates of ovarian cancer:<br>\nhttps:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s10552-010-9546-1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Measles and reduced risk of lymphomas <br>\nhttps:\/\/physiciansforinformedconsent.org\/measles\/dis\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And on the contrary\u2026.both the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) and chicken pox vaccine contain human DNA which has been linked to childhood cancers like leukemia and lymphoma, autoimmune diseases and gender identify confusion\u2026.<br>\nhttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/marcellaterry\/posts\/10214742184256064<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/m\/pubmed\/9824838\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Febrile infectious childhood diseases (FICDs) are associated with a lower cancer risk in adulthood. A Swiss study found that adults are significantly protected against non-breast cancers \u2014 genital, prostate, gastrointestinal, skin, lung, ear-nose-throat, and others \u2014 if they contracted measles (odds ratio, OR = 0.45), rubella (OR = 0.38) or chickenpox (OR = 0.62) earlier &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=21581\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Childhood Diseases Protect Against Cancer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21583,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21581\/revisions\/21583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}