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RE: Why Tessa Jowell should be getting on a plane to India.

in #tessa7 years ago

That is so fascinating! I lost my mum to glioblastomas in 2000, she was 49. And her mother died of the same in 2002. I feel the prognosis and treatment has changed little in all this time. So wonderful to see this!
Funnily enough I read somewhere a couple of years ago that contracting chickenpox in childhood greatly reduces the risk of glioblastomas. Have no idea how true this is, it was a proper study however. We know so little about the human body

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Hi @Tracywhite, you're right about glioblastoma risk reduced by having chicken pox. There are several studies but this one kicked them of https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26972449.