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Opioid Use and Cancer Risk Findings from UK Biobank Data – IARC

IARC – International Agency for Research on Cancer/World Health Organization shared a post on LinkedIn:

“Large study by IARC’s Dr Mahdi Sheikh and colleagues using UK Biobank data finds regular use of pharmaceutical opioids also associated with increased risk of cancers previously linked to opium consumption.

Study in the journal eClinicalMedicine.”

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