Paracetamol risk of cancer

Paracetamol for pain relief and fever-reducing drugs active ingredient in the use of paracetamol in blood belirlendi.Düzenli cancer connection, can double the risk of developing cancer of the blood appeared.

American scientists, as a result of their research with an analgesic and antipyretic effect of paracetamol medications containing the active substance risk of developing cancer of the blood of persons over age 50, during a period of 10 years came from 1 percent to 2 percent was determined.

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, experts from around Washington state, which initially healthy men and women, average age about 65 thousand were followed over a period of six years.

Research over 577 people in the so-called blood cancer lymphoma

seen. Experts on examining these 577 people, has discovered that people are using paracetamol on a regular basis.

Cutting 5 percent said that using paracetamol at least four times a week. Cutting 9 percent, that is, 52 individuals reported using drugs frequently.

The research

Emily White, "50 years old or older than ten years, this kind of a person's risk of developing cancer is 1 per cent. Paracetamol at least four years in our study at least four times a week has done to two per cent of risk taking reveal that, "he says.

Leukemia and Lymphoma Research

association, however, Dr David Grant, a numerical relationship, a causal link kanıtlamayacağını said, "saying that the well-known mechanism of paracetamol does not cause cancer. Elderly people over the years, the frequency of paracetamol use is not a reliable way to generate data to ask" he says. Than 1 percent to 2 percent increase in 10 years, argues that it is a small increase.