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Earn CME with your medical news Updated: 11:04 a.m. ET Jan. 17, 2006 LONDON - Exposure to pesticides in the womb or as a child can double the risk of developing acute leukemia, French scientists said on Tuesday. They discovered that children born to women who used insecticides in the home while pregnant and after the birth were nearly twice as likely as other youngsters to develop leukemia. Even insecticide shampoos to kill head lice raised the odds of the disease. Story continues below & #8595; --------------------------------- advertisement ad_dap(250,300,' & PG=NBCMSH & AP=1089'); --------------------------------- “The results ... support the hypothesis that various types of insecticide exposure may be a risk factor for childhood acute leukemia,” said Dr Florence Menegaux, of the research institute INSERM Villejuif, France, in a report in the journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine. The researchers discovered the link after interviewing the mothers of 280 children who had been diagnosed with leukemia and of 288 healthy children. They found that youngsters exposed to fungicides and garden insecticides had more than double the risk of the illness than other children. Leukemia is the most common cancer in children. Symptoms include anemia, joint pain and repeated infections. Children with the illness may also have nose bleeds and bruising without any apparent cause. Chemotherapy, which is very effective against the disease, is the standard treatment. Although no specific product was singled out in the study, the scientists said their findings and results from other research suggest action to prevent exposure to insecticides should be considered. Copyright 2006 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. 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