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Moms Can Pass Cancer to Kids In Utero

Mutation makes cancer cells 'invisible' to fetus' immune system

By Harry Kimball,  Newser Staff

Posted Oct 13, 2009 2:05 PM CDT

(Newser) – Mothers pass myriad things to their unborn babies via the placenta, and scientists have found that cancer is among them. Researchers studied the case of a mother who died of leukemia soon after she gave birth, and whose child was diagnosed with cancer months later....   Read full story »

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