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Thursday, February 19, 2004

Antibiotics cause breast cancer?

Right after my writ where I talk about researchers creating a pre-selection bias, the drawing of a bullseye after shots are fired, the following appears-dr

Yesterday's JAMA, today's headline:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14970061&dopt=Abstract
CONCLUSIONS: Use of antibiotics is associated with increased risk of incident and fatal breast cancer. It cannot be determined from this study whether antibiotic use is causally related to breast cancer, or whether indication for use, overall weakened immune function, or other factors are pertinent underlying exposures. Although further studies are needed, these findings reinforce the need for prudent long-term use of antibiotics.
Despite the author's own conclusions and the subsequent editorial in JAMA, get ready for Alt-Med fall out of anti-rx rants that will reference this.

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