History of infections and vaccinations and risk of lymphoid neoplasms: does influenza immunization reduce the risk?

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Cigarette smoking, alcohol drinking, and risk of lymphoid neoplasms: results of a French case–control study

“…In the present study, the controls who smoked were more likely to drink alcohol (51%) than the non-smokers (30%). Mutual adjustment of smoking and drinking did not change the estimates, nor did adjustment for the factors previously found to be related to LN in the present study, i.e., history of mononucleosis, influenza immunization [32], and farming as an occupation [33].…”

“…Neither did adjustment for factors related to LN in previous analyses (history of mononucleosis for HL and influenza immunization for LPS and CLL [32] nor for agricultural jobs [33] and skin characteristics [34]. The results were not affected either when family history of cancer and lymphoma, personal history of autoimmune disease, or body mass index was included in the models.…”

UV radiation exposure, skin type and lymphoid malignancies: results of a French case–control study

“…Variables were studied jointly in multivariate regressions and the interactions between variables were tested. Occupation as farmer and a history of mononucleosis were considered as possible confounders in the analysis [24,25].…”

Delayed exposure to infections and childhood lymphomas: a case–control study

“…Epidemiological studies attempting to correlate development of lymphomas with indirect indices of exposure to infections indicating late attainment of herd immunity, such as birth order, sibship size, crowding index, figures on residency changes, and history of exposure to specific infections, have often found inconsistent and contradictory results [2,6,[9][10][11][12][13][14]. In order to evaluate whether newly diagnosed children with lymphomas compared to their controls, present with a more seronegative pattern, we tested seronegativity to a battery of nine common infectious agents.…”