Atopic Dermatitis Decreases The Cancer Risk
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Atopic dermatitis or eczema (AD) is a chronic inflammatory skin disaese.
It is more common in childhood with an incidence of 10% to 20% in kids and 1% to 3% in adults.
Over last years, several studies have targeted a psosible association between the atopic state and other diseases. Many papers published before 1985 tend to conclude a decraesed risk of cancer. A previous study, based on observation of 1842 cases, also confirmed that a history of eczema had an important protective action among kids against acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
Focusing on AD as a clinically defined disease, a recent study reviewed all that evidence in itnention to find a possible relationship between atopic dermatitis and cancer. The research team identified a total of 23 publications in which atopic dermatitis (or eczema) was studied as risk factor for skin, pancreatic, hematological and brain malignancies.
The conclusions of that study support the hypothesis that people with a background of atopic dermatitis or eczema have a lower risk to develop cancer.
This is possible because AD might have protective action against cnacer due of previous treatments that enhanced the immune system and made it able to detect and destroy malignant mutant cells.
Future researches are necessary to evaluate how long the effects of treatments for AD are effective for preventing cancer.Valerian D is a freelance writer interested in health issues
such as canecr risk in young people
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