AN unknown genetic and environmental cocktail has sparked a mysterious rise in blood cancers in Australia with rates almost doubling over the past two decades.
While most cancers have declined or stabilised, the incidence of blood cancers such as lymphoma is on the rise.
New cases of blood cancers have spiked from nearly 4000 cases in 1983 to more than 7500 diagnosed in 2001.
Blood cancers include leukemia and Hodgkin's lymphoma, the condition from which singer Delta Goodrem suffered.
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