Psoriasis associated with increased cancer risk – asume tech

havinPsoriasis is associated with jokeIf there is an increased risk of cancer, a new overview of the studies is available.

Researchers writing in JAMA Dermatology combined data from 58 studies and found that psoriasis levels of all severity increased by 18 percent, and 22 percent were associated with severe psoriasis, compared to those without disease. Cancer mortality was increased in all cases of severe psoriasis.

For some specific cancers, the risk was even higher. For example, they found that severe psoriasis was associated with a more than eleven-fold risk of squamous cell carcinoma (skin cancer), such as twice the risk of oesophageal and liver cancer and a 45 percent increased risk of pancreatic cancer.

Any degree of psoriasis, whether severe or not, was significantly associated with, inter alia, colon cancer, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and cancers of the kidney and pancreas.

The reason for the association is unclear, but there is a known link between chronic inflammation and cancer and this may help explain the relationship.

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