Baby's formula and Leukeimia Risk

Longer Baby's on Formula, Higher the Leukemia Risk

By Charles Bankhead, Staff Writer, MedPage Today

Published: October 17, 2012

Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

Prolonged formula feeding may increase the odds for pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), investigators in a case-control study concluded.

Each additional month of formula feeding was associated with a 16% increase in the relative risk of ALL compared with a control group. Every additional month of delay in the start of solid foods increased the odds by 14%./.../