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Osteoporosis Medicine Can Cause Cancer
Not a few people who take medicine to fight the thinning of the bones to avoid osteoporosis. But according to the study, taking osteoporosis medicine may increase cancer risk.
The experts warned that the osteoporosis drug can be two times increased risk of esophageal cancer or esophageal cancer.
Quoted from Dailymail, Monday (06/09/2010), a study showed that people who consume oral bisphosphonate drugs (drugs for osteoporosis) for five years, ie the duration is recommended to improve bone strength, are at high risk of oesophageal cancer.
Oral bisphosphonates are medicine that used to treat osteoporosis and other bone diseases. Oral bisphosphonates are also the most frequently recommended treatment for bone thinning condition.
It is estimated that by consumpting that medicine will make gastric reflux is very large, ie stomach acid rises and flows back into the esophagus, especially the esophagus. These conditions can cause pre-cancerous changes.
Researchers from the Cancer Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford and Regulatory Agency Medicines and Healthcare Products UK (Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency or MHRA) to analyze data from the UK General Practice Research Database.
Researchers focus on men and women over the age of 40 years who consumed oral bisphosphonates (including Fosamax) and its relation to three types of cancers, ie esophageal cancer, stomach cancer and colon cancer, between 1995 and 2005.
The result, researchers found that people who consume 10 or more prescription drugs for osteoporosis for about three to five years, nearly twice the risk of esophageal cancer compared with people who do not eat at all.
In general, esophageal cancer usually develops in one of 1000 people aged 60-79 years during the five years. But with the use of prophylactic drugs thinning bones, the risk rises to two cases per 1000 people.
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