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MUNICH -- Hidradenitis suppurativa is associated with a markedly increased risk of squamous cell carcinoma, Dr. JeanPaul Ortonne said at the 10th Congress of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology.
This chronic inflammatory skin disease may also be associated with increased risks of buccal and primary liver cancer, although this possibility needs to be interpreted with caution, said Dr. Ortonne of the National Institute of Health and Medical Research, Nice.
He cited a retrospective study by Dr. Jan Lapins and associates at Stockholm's Karolinska Institute. This was the first large-scale follow-up study of patients with hidradenitis suppurativa.
The investigators identified all 2,119 patients discharged with a diagnosis of hidradenitis suppurativa from any Swedish hospital during 1965-1997 and linked those records to the Swedish National Cancer Registry After excluding all cancers diagnosed within 1 year after hospitalization on the grounds that the malignancy might have predated the hidradenitis suppurativa, the Swedish investigators ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Skin disease tied to greater squamous cell cancer risk. (Hidradenitis...