Graham Collins, Associate Professor, Haematology and lymphoma specialist at Oxford Cancer and Haematology centre, shared on X:
“Interesting. Strong association between eczema and subsequent diagnosis of Hodgkin lymphoma in huge UK primary care dataset. Of course it’s probably that the ‘eczema’ is a symptom of the lymphoma which can precede diagnosis by years sometimes.”
Cohort studies on 71 outcomes among people with atopic eczema in UK primary care data
Authors: Julian Matthewman, Anna Schultze, Helen Strongman, Krishnan Bhaskaran, Amanda Roberts, Spiros Denaxas, Kathryn E. Mansfield, Sinéad M. Langan