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Risk of Cancer in Patients with Metal-on-Metal Hip Replacements
Patterns of Risk of Cancer in Patients with Metal-on-Metal Hip Replacements versus Other Bearing Surface Types: A Record Linkage Study between a Prospective Joint Registry and General Practice Electronic Health Records in England.
This study provides reassuring results with respect to the possible signal of increased risks of cancer with metal-on-metal hip replacements. There was not an elevated risk of cancer with metal-on-metal hip implants and the analyses of cancer risk over time did not support a causal relationship. There were substantial differences in baseline characteristics between the different types of THR complicating the interpretation of a direct comparison between bearing surfaces. The analyses in this study will need to be repeated in the future longer follow-up data, in particular as cancer latency may be prolonged for specific cancer types and following metal exposure. Read more here.
Last modified: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 13:02:31 GMT