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What an incredibly odd correlation. Apparently if your child attends daycare when they are very young, it can reduce their risk of developing leukemia by 30%. Make sure to whip out that statistic next time someone looks down at you for being a working mom.

The new research, to be presented April 29 at the 2nd Children with Leukaemia Causes and Prevention of Childhood Leukaemia Conference in London, is the first comprehensive analysis of studies investigating the association between social contact and childhood leukaemia.

“Combining the results from these studies together provided us with more confidence that the protective effect is real. Analysing the evidence in this way gives a more reliable answer to the question and a more precise estimate of the magnitude of the effect,” said the study’s leader, Dr. Patricia Buffler, professor of epidemiology at the School of Public Health of the University of California, Berkeley.