Oscar Tahuahua, Medical Oncology Fellow at the National Cancer Institute of Mexico, shared a post on X about a recent article by Andreas Pedersen et al. published in JAMA Neurology:
“A first seizure can be the first sign of cancer.
In ~50,000 patients
- Cancer risk increased 5x
- Brain tumors increased 76x
- Highest risk in the first month ~4% are diagnosed with cancer within a year (~1 in 25 pts)
Not just a neurological event, sometimes it’s the diagnosis announcing itself.”
Title: Risk of Cancer in Patients With First-Time Seizure
Authors: Andreas Pedersen, Dóra Farkas, Cecilia Fuglsang, Victor Henderson, Sofie Al-Mashhadi, Holly Elser, Henrik Sørensen
Read the Full Article on JAMA Neurology
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