ArticleBritish journal of cancer2009
Cancer risk in hospitalised asthma patients.
Article in British journal of cancer, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 46 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- Allergies and risk of colorectal cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies.Oncotarget · 2017Pooled it
- Asthma and the risk of lung cancer: a meta-analysis.Oncotarget · 2017Pooled it
- Association between allergic conditions and risk of prostate cancer: A Prisma-Compliant Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Scientific reports · 2016Pooled it
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- Asthma and lung cancer risk: a systematic investigation by the International Lung Cancer Consortium.Carcinogenesis · 2012Pooled it
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- Prevalence of Adult Asthma and History of Screening for Cancer Among US Adults: Results from 2016, 2018, 2020, and 2022 National Level Cross-Sectional Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Associations of the Charlson comorbidity index with asthma and mortality (NHANES 2007-2018): a cross-sectional study.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2025Observational
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- Role of eosinophil counts in mediating the association between asthma and colon cancer.Clinical and translational allergy · 2024Article
- Evidence of the association between asthma and lung cancer risk from mendelian randomization analysis.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Skin cancer diagnosis associated with asthma and hay fever: a nationwide cross-sectional study.Archives of dermatological research · 2024Article
- Peripheral Inflammation Featuring Eosinophilia or Neutrophilia Is Associated with the Survival and Infiltration of Eosinophils within the Tumor among Various Histological Subgroups of Patients with NSCLC.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- Association between common chronic pulmonary diseases and lung cancer: Mendelian randomization analysis.Discover oncology · 2024Article
- Exploring the association between asthma and chronic comorbidities: impact on clinical outcomes.Frontiers in medicine · 2024Review
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- Cancer incidence after asthma diagnosis: Evidence from a large clinical research network in the United States.Cancer medicine · 2023Article
- Acute respiratory distress syndrome enhances tumor metastasis into lungs: Role of BRD4 in the tumor microenvironment.International immunopharmacology · 2023Article
- The immunological and structural epidermal barrier dysfunction and skin microbiome in atopic dermatitis-an update.Frontiers in molecular biosciences · 2023Review
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6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Asthma is an increasingly common disorder, affecting 5-10% of the population. It involves a dysregulated immune function, which may predispose to subsequent cancer. We examined cancer risk among Swedish subjects who had hospital admission once or multiple times for asthma. An asthma research database was created by identifying asthma patients from the Swedish Hospital Discharge Register and by linking them with the Cancer Registry. A total of 140 425 patients were hospitalised for asthma during 1965-2004, of whom 7421 patients developed cancer, giving an overall standardised incidence ratio (SIR) of 1.36. A significant increase was noted for most sites, with the exception of breast and ovarian cancers and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and myeloma. Patients with multiple hospital admissions showed a high risk, particularly for stomach (SIR 1.70) and colon (SIR 1.99) cancers. A significant decrease was noted for endometrial cancer and skin melanoma. Oesophageal and lung cancers showed high risks throughout the study period, whereas stomach cancer increased towards the end of the period. The relatively stable temporal trends suggest that the asthmatic condition rather than its medication is responsible for the observed associations.
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