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Risk Factors
The following factors increase your chance of developing ALL:
- Sex: male
- Race: white
- Age: children and elderly (adults older than 70)
- Previous chemotherapy or radiation therapy treatment
- Exposure to atomic bomb radiation or nuclear reactor accident
- Exposure to toxic chemicals such as benzene (common in agriculture, dye works, and paint manufacturing and use)
- Certain genetic disorders, such as Down’s syndrome , Bloom syndrome, Fanconi's anemia, ataxia-telangiectasia, neurofibromatosis , Schwachman syndrome, IgA deficiency, and congenital X-linked agammaglobulinemia
The following risk factors are specific to childhood ALL:
- Having a brother or sister with leukemia
- Race: white or Hispanic
- Living in the United States
- Exposure to x-rays before birth
- Exposure to radiation
- Previous chemotherapy or other treatment that weakens the immune system
- Certain genetic disorders (see above)
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