Re: Periodontal Disease Associated With Increased Cancer RiskOn Jun 2, 5:53 pm, Dan <dannom...@nospamstuff.org> wrote:This is
probably B.S. Maybe correlation, eating bad food.<<
More like stupidity ..
Bad teeth come with bacteria ..
The bacteria movers to the lungs ..
Doctors , nurses and lab techs cannot EASILY distinguish between lung
cancer and bacteria .. sooo .. they diagnose cancer and there is no
cancer .. just a mass of bacteria cured by antibiotics ..
Need a cite or two .. ?
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> on 6/2/08 4:01 AM J no> said the following:
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> > Periodontal Disease Associated With Increased Cancer Risk
> > http :// www .medscape,com /viewarticle/575197
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> > Roxanne Nelson
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> > May 28, 2008 — Periodontal disease is associated with a small but
> > significant increase in cancer risk, researchers report. The association
> > between periodontal disease and overall cancer risk was found in both
> > smokers and nonsmokers, according to a study that appears in June issue of
> > Lancet Oncology.
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> > The authors note that periodontal disease might be a marker of a
> > susceptible immune system or might directly affect cancer risk.
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> > Periodontal infections have previously been found to have systemic
> > implications; individuals with gum disease have increased concentrations
> > of circulating inflammatory markers, and disease severity directly
> > correlates with serum concentrations of inflammatory markers. Treating
> > periodontal infection can lower markers of systemic inflammatory and
> > endothelial dysfunction, and data from multidisciplinary studies add
> > strength to the possibility of causal associations for a number of health
> > conditions, including diabetes, stroke, and cardiovascular disease.
> > However, there is no consensus on the relative roles of confounding and
> > bias, or on the causal component of these associations.
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> > In this study, Dominique Michaud, ScD, a cancer epidemiologist from the
> > Imperial College London, United Kingdom, and colleagues assessed the role
> > of oral health in cancer risk. Using data from the Health Professionals
> > Follow-Up Study (HPFS), they examined whether there was an association
> > between periodontal disease, number of teeth, tooth loss during follow-up,
> > and cancer incidence.
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> > The HPFS is a large prospective-questionnaire study of male health
> > professionals that was started in 1986 and included 51,529 American men
> > between the ages 40 to 75 years. Participants have responded to subsequent
> > surveys every 2 years since the initial questionnaire. In the current
> > analysis, data were available for 48,375 men, with a median follow-up of
> > 17.7 years.
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> > Among this group, there were 5720 incident cancer cases documented,
> > excluding nonmelanoma skin cancer and nonaggressive prostate cancer. The
> > researchers found that the 5 most common cancers were colorectal (n =
> > 1043), melanoma of the skin (n = 698), lung (n = 678), bladder (n = 543),
> > and advanced prostate (n = 541).
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> > Men who reported a history of periodontal disease at baseline had a
> > slightly higher total cancer incidence than men without periodontal
> > disease (unadjusted hazard ratio [HR], 1.28). After controlling for known
> > risk factors, including smoking and dietary factors, men with a history of
> > periodontal disease had a higher risk for total cancer than men without
> > such a history (HR, 1.14).
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> > When they looked at specific cancer sites, the researchers noted
> > significant associations between a history of periodontal disease and lung
> > (HR, 1.36), kidney (HR, 1.49), pancreas (HR, 1.54), and hematological (HR,
> > 1.30) cancers. Men with fewer teeth at baseline (0 to 16 teeth) had a
> > higher risk for lung cancer (HR, 1.70) than men with 25 to 32 teeth.
> > Although periodontal disease was associated with significant increases in
> > total (HR, 1.21) and hematological (HR, 1.35) cancers in men who never
> > smoked, no association was observed for lung cancer.
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> > The study had several limitations, the authors note: periodontal disease
> > was self-reported and it had inadequate power to study less-common
> > cancers. The cohort also consisted entirely of men; the findings might not
> > be generalizable to women.
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> > A small increase in the risk for total cancer was seen in men who reported
> > having periodontal disease, compared with those who did not, the authors
> > note. "The increase in risk persisted in never-smokers for total cancer,
> > but not for lung cancer, suggesting that the increase in risk of malignant
> > disease overall is not because of residual confounding by smoking."
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> > "Given the systemic effects of periodontal disease and the potential
> > involvement of the immune system, as a marker of susceptibility or through
> > changes in immune surveillance, we believe that further research on the
> > role of periodontal disease in cancer, especially hematological cancers,
> > is warranted," they conclude.
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> > The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health. The researchers
> > have disclosed no relevant financial relationships.
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> > Lancet Oncol. 2008;9:550-558.
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