Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Antibiotics Use Linked with Increased Cancer Risk


 
Antibiotics Use Linked with Increased Cancer Risk

(The Best Years in Life) Isn't it ironic that the very thing we were taught would save us may actually be increasing our chances of death from a fatal disease! Recent research has established the link between antibiotic use and cancer.

The results of a nationwide cohort study to determine whether antibiotic use predicts the development of various cancers was published in the International Journal of Cancer. The research involved 3,112,624 individuals, aged 30-79 years, with no history of cancer. Information on the antibiotic use of the participants was obtained from the Drug Prescription Registry in Finland. During the following six years, 134,070 cancer cases in this group were documented from the Finnish Cancer Registry.  Read More.

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