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Mensen met een biopolaire stoornis hebben beduidend minder kans om kanker te krijgen blijkt uit grote langjarige studie. Artikel geplaatst 9 april 2011

9 april 2011: Bron: Neuro Science & Medicine
Mensen met een biopolaire stoornis (klik hier om te lezen wat Wikipedia over biopolaire stoornissen schrijft) hebben beduidend minder kans kanker te krijgen in vergelijking met mensen in het algemeen. Dit blijkt uit een 15 jarig onderzoek onder 1600 mensen met BAD - Bipolar Affective Disorder. Vooral de kans om borstkanker te krijgen is klein. Hier het abstract van de studie. Het volledige studierapport kunt u inzien als u hier klikt.

Reduced Risk of Cancer in Patients with Bipolar Affective Disorder

NM >> Vol.2 No.1, March 2011
 
Reduced Risk of Cancer in Patients with Bipolar Affective Disorder Open Access
Full Text(PDF, 37KB)  PP.57-60  DOI: 10.4236/nm.2011.21008
 
Author(s)
Eyal Rosenshfir, Pnina Shemesh, Dov Aizenberg, Yoram Barak
 
 
 
ABSTRACT
Background: research focusing on incidence of cancer amongst bipolar affective disorder (BAD) is sparse. Aim: to ex-amine the incidence of cancer in a cohort of BAD inpatients. Methods: the study sample was comprised of BAD patients who had been admitted to a tertiary care mental health center during the period: 1990 to 2006. The data for the sample was cross-referenced with the National Cancer Registry. Analyses of Standardized Incidence Rates (SIR) for all organ systems malignancies were performed. Results: of 1,638 BAD patients included in the present study, 72 (0.04%) were diagnosed as suffering from co-morbid malignancy. This reflects a significantly reduced risk; SIR of 0.27 (95% CI 0.21-0.34). Reduced risk of cancer held true for both males and females (0.20 and 0.34, respectively). Nineteen women developed breast cancer; SIR = 0.42 (95% CI 0.25-0.66). Conclusions: the present study demonstrates reduced rates of cancer amongst patients suffering from BAD - with special reduction in breast cancer.
 
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