[nickswan]

So sorry for you loss.

As someone has said further down - this is one theory and isn’t a general medical consensus.

Our daughter was diagnosed with ALL 12 months ago. She went to baby groups from 6 weeks and I would never have claimed our house was particularly clean.

What I have always found frustrating is we have never been asked any environmental questions about our daughters early years. There are many theories of cause so I would have expected them to get as much information as possible from us.

[gautamdivgi]

Our daughter was diagnosed with ALL a month ago. Again, as you said this seems to be a theory under discussion and not a general medical consensus. What I've found in my limited exposure to the medical system so far is that their singular focus is on the treatment and they rarely if ever look back for data that could be correlated to a cause. She's our second child and had her first cold at a few weeks old. Our house has never been particularly tidy and my older daughter kept bringing in the cough, cold and fever from pre-school. Interestingly, she had never been a rather sickly child or one that lacked stamina and has weathered most of the cold and fevers brought home by the elder child surprisingly well. Then she got her flu shot a couple of months ago that resulted in a fairly raging reaction (which the doctors dismissed that the flu shot can't do), which led to appendicitis (unusual for a 3 yr old) which led to the eventual diagnosis of ALL.

[nickswan]

Really sorry for the diagnosis your daughter has had. Our girls were about the same age at diagnosis. If you have any questions or want to chat anytime feel free to contact me. L

[foxylad]

Now we have the capacity to capture enormous amounts of data about our everyday lives, I'm amazed that as a society we haven't started doing wide-ranging pattern recognition to attempt to find environmental triggers for common ailments.

Google and Facebook could redeem themselves by putting some resources into looking for statistical patterns in their massive datasets. Finding the smoking gun for Parkinsons or prostate cancer would go a long way to making their data-collection more socially acceptable.