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Posted on 03/31/2009 12:07:21 PM PDT by nickcarraway
People with multiple sclerosis may have a lower overall risk of developing cancer, Swedish researchers report.
The study, which tracked the medical records of more than 20,000 MS patients for 35 years, "found that they had some 10 percent decreased overall cancer risk compared with those without the disease," said lead researcher Dr. Shahram Bahmanyar, from the Clinical Epidemiology Unit at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.
The study did find an increased risk among MS patients for certain malignancies, such as brain and bladder cancers.
Prior studies into the risk for cancer for people with MS has produced a hodgepodge of findings. The disease has been associated with a reduced risk for digestive, respiratory, prostate and ovary cancers, as well as non-Hodgkin lymphoma, but other studies have noted increased risks for urinary tract and nasopharyngeal cancers. To complicate matters even further, breast cancer risk has been reported as higher, lower or unchanged among those with MS, the researchers noted.
The new study sought to settle the matter. So, the Stockholm team compared the cancer risk in 20,276 people with MS to almost 204,000 people without the disease.
The reduction in cancer risk that they discovered was even more pronounced in women, according to the report, which appears in the March 31 issue of Neurology.
And the people who have the absolute lowest risk from getting cancer are pre-teens who commit suicide!
MS kills people before the cancer can grow or even arrive.
is it me or is that the dumbest survey of the year. I bet the taxpayer payed for it too.
Your statement is not supported by anything scientific.
My counter to you is that MS people live almost the same lifespan as everyone else. I have listened to two different neurology presentations that stated that there are lower incidences of cancer in MS people.
Please verify before you post something that is unscientific and quite negative.
There is a huge amount of research into MS. Most of it is private. A lot of it is funded by the pharmaceutical companies.
The pharmaceutical companies are very proactive. Their successes have given hope to hundreds of thousands of people who otherwise would be significantly worse off than they are now.
Keep obummer away from the private pharmaceutical companies and all private research money. It will stop all the progress that still needs to be made.
There’s some evidence that following a good diet helps people with MS avoid replapses. Assuming that a percentage of people with MS make it a point to have good diets to treat their MS, one can expect they will have a lower rate of cancer.
That could be it, also some of their medicines may have something to do with it. Any benefit that these people get like a lower risk of cancer, they really deserve. This can be a cruel disease.
Do you know how wrong you are?
Possible silver lining ping and how have you been lately?
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