The pattern of cancer in a large cohort of stroke patients
| Autor: | Knud Lindvig, Henrik Møller, Ole Møller Jensen, Johannes Mosbech |
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| Rok vydání: | 1990 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Epidemiology Denmark Malignancy Cohort Studies Risk Factors Stomach Neoplasms Internal medicine Neoplasms medicine Humans Registries Risk factor Stroke Aged Aged 80 and over business.industry Brain Neoplasms Incidence Cancer Retrospective cohort study General Medicine Middle Aged medicine.disease Surgery Cancer registry Cerebrovascular Disorders Cohort Female business Cohort study Follow-Up Studies |
| Zdroj: | International journal of epidemiology. 19(3) |
| ISSN: | 0300-5771 |
| Popis: | A cohort of 113,732 stroke patients from Danish Hospital Discharge Registry were, by linkage to the Danish Cancer Registry, found to have developed a total of 5151 cases of cancer in a mean follow-up time of 2.4 years after the diagnosis of stroke. There was no excess of gastric cancer. The present findings fail to support the existence of a common, strong risk factor for stroke and gastric cancer in individuals. In the cohort, more cancer than expected was observed. In particular, a more than ten-fold increase in risk of brain tumours within the first year after stroke diagnosis was observed, suggesting some diagnostic misinterpretation of a brain tumour as a stroke. Minor excesses of cancer of other sites were also found in the first year of follow-up. They are probably due to increased medical surveillance and diagnostic misinterpretation of an underlying malignancy as an incident of cerebrovascular disease, eg through metastatic spread to the brain. |
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