Recurrent antibiotic exposure may promote cancer formation--Another step in understanding the role of the human microbiota?
Recurrent antibiotic exposure may promote cancer formation--Another step in understanding the role of the human microbiota?
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10.1016/j.ejca.2015.08.015
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2015-11
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Yang YX
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Boursi B;Mamtani R;Haynes K;Yang YX
Bacterial dysbiosis was previously described in human malignancies. In a recent animal model, tumor susceptibility was transmitted using fecal transplantation. Our aim was to further evaluate possible association between antibiotic exposure and cancer risk. We conducted nested case-control studies for 15 common malignancies using a large population-based electronic medical records database. Cases were defined as those with any medical code for the specific malignancy. Individuals with familial cancer syndromes were excluded. For every case, four eligible controls matched on age, sex, practice site, and duration of follow-up before index-date were selected using incidence-density sampling. Exposure of interest was antibiotic therapy >1 year before index-date. Adjusted odds-ratios (AORs) and 95%CIs were estimated for each antibiotic type using conditional logistic regression. 125,441 cases and 490,510 matched controls were analyzed. For gastro-intestinal malignancies, the use of penicillin was associated with an elevated risk of esophageal, gastric, and pancreatic cancers. The association increased with the number of antibiotic courses and reached 1.4 for gastric cancers associated with >5 courses of penicillin (95%CI 1.2–1.8). Lung cancer risk increased with the use of penicillin, cephalosporines, or macrolides (AOR for >5 courses of penicillin: 1.4 95%CI 1.3–1.6). The risk of prostate cancer increased modestly with the use of penicillin, quinolones, sulphonamides and tetracyclines. The risk for breast cancer was modestly associated with exposure to sulphonamides. There was no association between use of anti-virals and anti-fungals and cancer risk. Recurrent exposure to certain antibiotics may be associated with cancer risk in specific organ sites.