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Observational studyScientific reports2021

Risk of head and neck cancer in patients with peptic ulcers and the effect of Helicobacter pylori treatment.

Yen-Ting Lu, Chung-Han Hsin, Ying-Chou Lu, Meng-Che Wu, Jing-Yang Huang, Cheng-Chen Huang, Po-Hui Wang, Shun-Fa Yang

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Observational study in Scientific reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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Yen-Ting LuDepartment of Otolaryngology, St. Martin De Porres Hospital, Chiayi, Taiwan.
Chung-Han HsinDepartment of Otolaryngology, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan.
Ying-Chou LuDepartment of Otolaryngology, St. Martin De Porres Hospital, Chiayi, Taiwan.
Meng-Che WuInstitute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, No.110,Sec.1,Jianguo N.Rd., Taichung City, 40201, Taiwan.
Jing-Yang HuangInstitute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, No.110,Sec.1,Jianguo N.Rd., Taichung City, 40201, Taiwan.
Cheng-Chen HuangDepartment of Otolaryngology, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan.
Po-Hui WangInstitute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, No.110,Sec.1,Jianguo N.Rd., Taichung City, 40201, Taiwan. wang082160@yahoo.com.tw.
Shun-Fa YangInstitute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, No.110,Sec.1,Jianguo N.Rd., Taichung City, 40201, Taiwan. ysf@csmu.edu.tw.
Chung Shan Medical University · TWChung Shan Medical University Hospital · TW

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

It remained inconclusive whether patients with peptic ulcer disease had a higher risk of head and neck cancer (HNC). Therefore, we enrolled 109,360 patients with peptic ulcer disease and matched for age and sex with 218,720 controls from the Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database between January 1, 1997 and December 31, 2013.The HNC incidence rate was 1.33-fold higher in the peptic ulcer group than in the control group (7.52 vs. 5.68 per 100,00 person-years; crude relative risk: 1.33; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.08-1.63) after > 6 years of follow-up. However, in the peptic ulcer subgroup with H. pylori treatment, HNC risk was not significantly different from that of the control group (crude relative risk: 1.12; 95% CI: 0.86-1.46). Moreover, the population with peptic ulcers had the highest risk of laryngeal and hypopharyngeal cancer (adjusted HR: 2.27 [95% CI: 1.16-4.44] and 2.00 [95% CI, 1.13-3.55]), respectively. This observational study suggested that peptic ulcer disease is associated with an increased incidence of laryngeal and hypopharyngeal cancer and H. pylori treatment may have a role in preventing HNC in patients with peptic ulcer disease.

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AdultAgedFemaleHead and Neck NeoplasmsHelicobacter InfectionsHelicobacter pyloriHumansIncidenceMaleMiddle AgedPeptic UlcerRisk FactorsTaiwan

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