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7066872

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
8
pubmed:dateCreated
1982-6-24
pubmed:abstractText
As part of an epidemiologic study of cancer of the large bowel in women, female residents of King and Pierce counties (Washington) who were diagnosed during 1976--77 were interviewed regarding previous gallbladder surgery. Their responses were compared with those of a random sample of women from the same population. A history of cholecystectomy was somewhat more frequent among patients with colon cancer than among controls--we estimate the colon cancer risk in women without a gallbladder to be 1.4 times that of other women--but the 05% confidence limits of the relative risk included 1.0 (0.8--2.5). There was no association between cholecystectomy and rectal cancer and, among the subsites of colon cancer, the magnitude of the excess risk failed to show any consistent right--left gradient. Nonepidemiologic data suggest that cholecystectomy could increase the risk of colon cancer. However, if such an association truly exists it is not a strong one, and studies larger than those conducted to date are needed to detect this association reliably.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
0008-543X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
49
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1713-5
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1982
pubmed:articleTitle
Cholecystectomy and the incidence of cancer of the large bowel.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.