MS may cause you to adopt less cancer-prone lifestyle
Submitted by art on Wed, 2009-04-15 06:55.
For reasons that are unclear, patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) appear to be less prone to develop cancer in general than other individuals.
"We speculate that the lower risk for cancer among people with MS could be a result of lifestyle changes or treatment following diagnosis," lead author Dr. Shahram Bahmanyar, of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, said in a statement.
However, for brain tumors and urinary organ cancer, MS is associated with elevated risks.