Re: is this propaganda - abx and cancer

April 20, 2005

JAMA is a well known journal, not that that absolutely proves anything.

With an investigation of this nature, theres no way to do a control

experiment, so to show that A probably causes B you have to consider

whether things like C-1, C-2, C-3 etc could causally contribute to

both A and B. And it looks like theyve done some work on that front,

considering some smart factors, tho I didnt read thru the text. Of

course, to a greater or lesser degree, questions always remain as to

whether theres a C-56245634 that no one thought of.

Weighing risk, a risk factor increase of 2-fold isnt that huge in my

feeling, especially with reference to a uncommon disease like cancer.

Tho, cancer may be more common in PWC, or so I've heard. But on the

other hand, one might consider ideas about the impact of chronic

inflammation on tumor establishment. I dont know much about those

ideas, but considering them, abx use could very well greatly

*decrease* cancer risk for sickies of our kind - no one can say for

sure, as far as I know.

> pdy uploaded to the files section

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> abx = breast cancer.

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> Looks like tosh at first glance.

April 20, 2005

> Weighing risk, a risk factor increase of 2-fold isnt that huge in my

> feeling, especially with reference to a uncommon disease like cancer.

Its not that uncommon - I dono why I said that.

> Tho, cancer may be more common in PWC, or so I've heard. But on the

> other hand, one might consider ideas about the impact of chronic

> inflammation on tumor establishment. I dont know much about those

> ideas, but considering them, abx use could very well greatly

> *decrease* cancer risk for sickies of our kind - no one can say for

> sure, as far as I know.

s article in the Journal of Inflammation (online) might be

good to read about this. If I recall it addresses biology, but maybe

has some references to epidemiology studies that might have clinical

data on whether inflammatory diseases contribute to cancer (if such

data exist; I dono).

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