What are the risk factors for developing leukemia?

What are the risk factors for developing leukemia?

I think it's understood by the majority of experts in this field that there are no specific risk factors to identify or put people at risk for leukaemia. This is other than in the secondary leukaemias which are as the result of treatment, and I think in the process of treating patients for other malignancies or when giving patients medications or treatments that put them at risk for leukaemia, it needs to be part of the informed consent and decision making process before undergoing treatment of any type. Most commonly, Hodgkin's lymphoma is a lymphoma that usually affects patients of young age. The combination of chemotherapy and/or radiation puts this patient at risk of leukaemia in the future. The best way to sum it up is to say that there are no particular risk factors that I know of in the literature to identify people at risk for leukaemia, other than the secondary leukaemias as a result of treatment.