Allergy Benefit (!) - Apparently Less Lymphoma

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I had heard many years ago that theoretically there might some bright

side (ha!) to allergies. Just came across this article that people

with allergic asthma and hay fever are less likely to develop non-

Hodgkins lymphoma.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/116643.php

.... In a paper presented at an international symposium in Sydney,

the researchers show that people with one of these atopic diseases

are up to 25 percent less likely to get the most common type of Non-

Hodgkin Lymphoma (NHL).

.....

The more atopic diseases the individual has, the less likely they are

to succumb to NHL. If an individual has three of these conditions,

they are 40 percent less likely to get NHL. (see the web page for

the rest of the article) ....

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Perhaps this is why a miniscule number of people developed certain

types of cancer in the trials on Xolair although most if not all of

those people either already had a problem or it ran in their

families. It's obviously not the whole story, though, because the

vast majority of people on Xolair do NOT appear to develop serious

complications.