Serious implications come from a n...

Serious implications come from a new study linking antibiotic use with a 100 percent increased risk of breast cancer. For perspective, the increased risk of breast cancer from hormone replacement therapy build in the Women's Health Initiative study--which unsettl doctors and patients alike--represented sole a 20 percent higher risk.

Among 2266 women with breast cancer, use of antibiotics was notably greater than among another 7 953 women without breast cancer. And the higher risk of breast cancer was evident for various antibiotic classes. It's difficult to ascertain without further research whether this is a cause-and-effect relationship. moreover the results and worrisome.

Antibiotics are undivided of the most prescribed physics in North America, and population frequently waste them on bitings and flu-against which they are ineffective. Reduc use could obstruct many deaths attributed to breast cancer.

The Journal of the American Medical Association published the meditation in its February 11, 2004 issue and strained its importance--reinforcing the need for sparing use of antibiotics--in editorial in the same issue.

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