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Lung cancer tied to knee arthritis
Posted Sep 4th 2007 1:43PM by Brian White
Filed under: Lung Cancer, Politics
Isn't it a little odd to see arthritis being tied to lung cancer? That is precisely what a new research report has stated, though. The correlation between
arthritis of the knee and initial signs of lung cancer in heavy smokers made up the conclusion of a new report yet to be published in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases.
Monoarthritis -- inflammation in just one knee joint -- was found to be the first sign of non-small lung cancer in a group of patients that were studied. The interesting thing here is that all those lung cancer cases were completely undiagnosed before each knee arthritis case was examined.
The good news is that the lung cancer in most of these men who were studied (all of which had been heavy smokers) were in the operable stage -- and when the cancerous tissue had been removed from each patient, knee arthritis problems subsided. Interesting connection, yes?
Tags: knee arthritis, KneeArthritis, lung cancer, LungCancer
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1. Interesting.
But in my case the arthritis was evident 25 years before the lung cancer, which probably doesn't prove anything.
However, I wonder if having arthritis at a fairly young age could be a marker of a genetic susceptibility to LC.
Posted at 7:44PM on Sep 5th 2007 by Ian