Study finds herbalists at higher urinary cancer risk
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A small new study from Taiwan links a widely banned substance traditionally used in Chinese medicine to an elevated risk for kidney and bladder cancers among professional herbalists. Herbs, such as fang chi, that contain the plant-derived aristolochic acid, are known to cause cancer as well as kidney failure, and the current study suggests that working with these herbs raised urinary cancer rates among Taiwanese herbalists who handled fang chi before its ban in 2003. "This is the first study that looks at an occupational group that has been heavily exposed to aristolochic acid," said the study's lead author Dr. Hsiao-Yu Yang, an occupational medicine professor at Tzu Chi University in Taiwan. Previous research has found that Chinese herbalists have three times higher risk for urinary system cancers compared with the general population, but those reports didn't connect the pattern to a specific work-related factor.
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Dr. Hsiao-Yu Yang
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| -0.110693 | "We want to push our government to prohibit all drugs that contain aristolochic acid," Yang said. ... |
| 0.170792 | "This occupational group may also take fang chi - I cannot say that it is not impossible that the disease comes from taking the herbs - but their occupation contributes to the etiology greatly," Yang said. ... |
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Mikel Aickin
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| -0.0519924 | "It's a low quality study, and I wouldn't rely on it at all," said Mikel Aickin, ... |
| -0.197039 | "It's really just a very clumsy study that's rediscovered what's already known about the carcinogenesis of taking it as a treatment. They're producing nonsense," he added. ... |
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Graham Lord
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| 0 | "It may be under-recognized, but in the last two or three years, there has been an increasing number of epidemiological studies coming out showing that there could be potentially tens of thousands of patients out there that have been exposed," Lord told ... |
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Steven Given
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| -0.0183074 | "Now that this paper is out, I suspect and hope that there will be more interest in worker safety in this industry," said Steven Given, ... |
| 0.1279 | "Now that this paper is out, I suspect and hope that there will be more interest in worker safety in this industry," said Steven Given, dean of clinical education at the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in San Francisco. "I think this is a very good sign." |
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Country: Taiwan
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HealthCondition: cancer
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Disambiguation: FieldOfStudy | DiseaseOrMedicalCondition | CauseOfDeath | DiseaseCause | MedicalSpecialty | RiskFactor | DiseaseReferences:
HealthCondition: kidney failure
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HealthCondition: bladder cancers
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FieldTerminology: urinary system
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