Deans' stroke musings: Stroke survivors may be at higher risk of having cancer

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Friday, February 13, 2015

Stroke survivors may be at higher risk of having cancer

Is your doctor working on preventing this just like they are preventing your 33% dementia chance post-stroke from an Australian study?
Or are you on your own like you are with stroke rehab?
http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=149461&CultureCode=en
A study of stroke survivors showed that having a stroke was linked with an increased risk of having an underlying cancer. Stroke survivors who develop cancer have a three-times higher risk of dying compared to survivors who don’t get cancer.
People who had a stroke may develop cancer at a higher rate than those who do not have a stroke, according to research presented at the American Stroke Association’s International Stroke Conference 2015.
“We already knew that cancer patients are at increased risk of stroke. But what happens when you turn it around and look at cancer risks for ischemic stroke survivors? That was our question,” said Malik Adil, M.D., lead author from the research team at the Zeenat Qureshi Stroke Institute in St Cloud, Minnesota.
The team analyzed data from theVitamin Intervention for Stroke Prevention (VISP) multicenter trial from 1997 to 2001. The analysis consisted of 3,247 cancer-free participants over the age of 35 who had a mild ischemic (clot-caused) stroke.
Researchers found:

The annual rate of age-adjusted cancer incidence was higher among ischemic stroke patients compared with the general population.
The rate of cancer occurring among stroke survivors was 1.2 times higher at one year, and 1.4 times higher at two years.
Stroke survivors who developed cancer had up to three-times higher chance of dying compared to those who didn’t get cancer.

Having cancer is linked to higher ischemic stroke risks mainly because cancer patients’ blood tends to clot more often, Adil said. “In addition, when tissues get less oxygen due to blocked blood vessels, it destroys tissue cells and sets off a series of events to alter the normal physiology and may lead to cancer.”
Another risk factor for developing cancer was age. The study showed stroke survivors over age 50 were 1.4 times more likely to develop cancer within two years than their counterparts who were age 50 and under.
The researchers used National Cancer Institute data for the general population’s cancer rates. Then they calculated cancer rate differences between the stroke and non-stroke groups at one month, six months, one year and two years.
They also calculated the risk of death and other cardiovascular events, and compared those findings between stroke survivors who did and didn’t develop cancer.
Participants developed a wide range of cancers, including skin, prostate, breast, lung and bladder cancer.
“If you’ve had a stroke before, especially with another high-risk factor, it’s important that you talk to your doctor and discuss earlier cancer screening,” said Adil. “Factors that may put a person at higher risk for developing cancer include: cigarette smoking, alcohol consumption and a family history of cancer.
http://newsroom.heart.org/news/stroke-survivors-may-be-at-higher-risk-of-having-cancer?preview=cab2b31831029b0c9902e595d5a81f5e