People with asthma have an elevated risk for a variety of cancers other than lungcancer, including melanoma as well as blood, kidney, and ovarian cancers, new research suggests. MedTwitter
Compared with adults without asthma, those with asthma who did not treat it with an inhaled steroid had a more pronounced overall cancer risk compared with those who were on an inhaled steroid .
In contrast, among patients with asthma who did use an inhaled steroid, an elevated cancer risk was observed for only two cancers, lung cancer and melanoma , suggesting a potential protective effect of inhaled steroid use on cancer, the researchers said. And because of the observational nature of the current study, Guo's team stressed that these findings do not prove a causal relationship between asthma and cancer.
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