NASHVILLE—The annual rate of age-adjusted cancer incidence is higher among patients who
have had ischemic stroke, compared with the general
population, according to data presented at the 2015
International Stroke Conference. Furthermore, the
risk of mortality is threefold greater among stroke
survivors who develop incident cancer, compared
with stroke survivors who do not develop cancer.
“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, MD, at the Zeenat Qureshi Stroke Institute in St.
Cloud, Minnesota, and the Department of Neurology
at Ochsner Clinic Foundation. Subclinical cancer can
manifest itself as a thromboembolic event and may be
detected at a later time in patients who have survived
ischemic stroke.
Analyzing Data From a Stroke Prevention Trial
Dr. Adil and his colleagues conducted an analysis of
3,680 adults older than 35 with nondisabling cerebral
infarction who were followed for two years within the
randomized, double-blinded Vitamin Intervention for
Stroke Prevention trial between 1997 and 2001. The
investigators calculated age-adjusted rates of the incidence of cancer among ischemic stroke survivors. They
Stroke Survivors May Have
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