“…Sickle cell disease (SCD), the most common inherited blood disorder in the United States, is associated with a number of serious complications, including vaso‐occlusive crisis, thrombosis, stroke, acute chest syndrome and osteonecrosis of the femoral head (Platt et al , ; Powars et al , ; Adesina et al , ; Brunson et al , 2017a). We and others have found an increased incidence of certain cancers among SCD patients compared to general or hospitalized populations (Seminog et al , ; Brunson et al , 2017b).…”