'Antibiotics could increase your risk of bowel cancer'
Now, scientists in the US have warned antibiotics could be a risk factor - and have urged doctors to think twice before prescribing the drugs.
The drugs have a strong and lasting effect on the gut microbiome, altering the balance of good and bad bacteria.Now, experts at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, have looked closer at the potential link with colon cancer. and antibiotic use was evident among patients who had taken these drugs more than 10 years before their cancer was diagnosed."Dr Sears' team believe the risk depends on the type and class of antibiotics given to patients.
And in contrast, prescriptions of tetracyclines were found to lower the risk of cancer in the rectum - the last part of the bowel. They weren't able to assess other lifestyle factors, or hospital treatment that could have affected a patient's cancer risk. "However, for some classes of antibiotic, the increased risk for cancer of the colon seems to be partially offset by a reduced risk of rectal cancer.
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