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Hi
Just started readin the book, "Numb toes and aching Soles". There was a study conducted in 1998' suggesting, at least by implication, a possible link between Idiopathic neuropathy and cancer. The study was performed on 51 patients. More than a third developed cancer after the onset of their NP. The cancers being diagnosed at a mean interval of 27.9 months following onset of NP. The mean age was 64.5 years. Then it states at the end: The investigations of the study did note two earlier studies had shown fewer instances of post-neuropathy cancer occurring than had their own. Very scary stuff. Sue |
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--instances in which cancer has been found after a thorough investigation for an acute or sub-acute onset of neuropathy. This is rare, and tends to happen with certain kinds of cancers, and almost always with a particular antibody profile. One has to get the proper testing for those antibodies, though.
See: http://neuromuscular.wustl.edu/nother/paraneo.htm http://www.questdiagnostics.com/test...%20Amyloidosis The most common cancers that produce such paraneoplastic syndromes are lung cancers and the myeloma-related blood cancers. |
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