Breastfeeding and Childhood Leukemia: Evidence-based Practice

Effects of
breastfeeding on
leukemia
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Introduction
 Evidence based practice refers to the approach that
helps in effective clinical decision making skills related to
the delivery of superior quality healthcare services to the
clients (LoBiondo-Wood, Haber, Berry & Yost, 2013).
 Purpose- Research on the issue of childhood leukemia
and establishment of its link with breast feeding
 Hypothesis- Breast feeding has the capability of reducing
likelihood of childhood leukemia
 Cancer that creates an impact on bone marrow and
blood is called leukemia
 It leads to the abnormal elevation in the production of
lymphocytes and WBCs
 Common symptoms of leukaemia include chills or fever,
losing weight, severe infections, weakens, bruising,
nosebleeds, sweating, tenderness, pain in bones, and
swelling in the lymph nodes.

Literature
review
 Amitay, Dubnov and Keinan-Boker (2016) have aimed to identify the
association between breast feeding and childhood leukemia and used
randomized control trial with 384 participants and found that due to poor
nutritious condition the risk of infectious disease increases among
children because of their poor immune system which may lead to the risk
of leukemia.
 Ajrouche et al. (2015) has conducted a research using national registry-
based case–control study. The study has been carried out in France and
617 ALL and 1225 controls aged 1 year have been recruited. The study
investigated the childhood acute lymphocytic leukemia and immune
stimulation and identified the effectiveness of breast feeding in such
case.
 Rudant et al. (2015) has conducted a research using international
consortium study which aimed to identify the immune stimulation during
childhood leukemia. The study has included 7,399 ALL cases and 11,181
controls aged between 2-14 year and recommended that findings of the
study required to be communicated with the parents in an effective
manner
 Amitay and Keinan-Boker (2015) have examined the effectiveness of
breast feeding for reducing the risk of leukemia among children. In this
regards the authors have included meta-analysis of 17 studies which
examined 9650 cases of leukemia and identified that breast feeding for 6
months or more than that has reduced the risk of leukemia by 20% as
compared to the cases where breast feeding was not done.