Cancer incidence following non-neoplastic medical conditions: a prospective population-based cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background and purpose

Many non-neoplastic diseases have been established to be tumorigenic, and cancers are sometimes misdiagnosed as non-neoplastic diseases. We conducted a comprehensive registry-based study of site-specific cancer diagnosis risk following the diagnosis of any preceding medical condition (PMC) encoded by the International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-10 classification.

Material and methods

We analyzed healthcare data and cancer data for a random population-based sample of 2.5 million individuals living in Finland on January 1, 2000. Hazard ratios for each PMC and cancer pair were estimated using piecewise constant hazard regression models. P-values were corrected for multiple testing with the Bonferroni method.

Results

Several lifestyle-related

SUBMITTER: Sipila LJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11541804 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature