Women have always been warned on the dangers "smoking pregnancy" as it causes birth complications. Now research has also proved that babies born to women who smoked during pregnancy are at a significant higher risk (five times, to quote the study) of developing childhood cancer.
Researchers at the Cancer Institute NSW found that leukemia, brain, kidney and eye cancers were common in kids whose mothers smoked during pregnancy.
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Infertility is a condition wherein couples fail to achieve pregnancy or if the woman has been unable to carry a pregnancy that results in a live birth.
Infertility is a condition wherein couples fail to achieve pregnancy or if the woman has been unable to carry a pregnancy that results in a live birth.
They are 2.7 times more likely to develop the disease and five times at risk of kidney cancer.
The researchers linked the records of all births in NSW between 1994 and 2005 with cases of cancer in children during the same period.
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A miscarriage (spontaneous abortion) is the spontaneous loss of a fetus before the 20th week of pregnancy.
A miscarriage (spontaneous abortion) is the spontaneous loss of a fetus before the 20th week of pregnancy.
According to assistant Health Minister Jodi McKay, the research was a 'smoking gun'.
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Pregnancy Labor is caused by series of progressive expulsive contractions by the uterus and results in delivery of the baby from the mothers womb to the outside world.
Pregnancy Labor is caused by series of progressive expulsive contractions by the uterus and results in delivery of the baby from the mothers womb to the outside world.
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Birth defects caused due to environmental teratogens like drugs, microorganisms or exposure to radiation are called as environmental birth defects.
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