Tricyclic antidepressants (TCA), which accounted for a third of all prescription drugs to fight depression, reduce the risk of Bowel Cancer 21%, as the American scientists. Moreover, this class of antidepressants also helps to reduce by 64% the risk of developing a particular cancer type in the brain or spine, called glioma .
Every year tens of thousands of Russians know that they are sick bowel cancer Still have about 15 thousand diagnosed gliomas . It turns out less often faced with these severe disease, patients taking tricyclic antidepressants or long enough, or receiving very high doses of antidepressants.
Scientists have deduced this law, studying the medical records of patients who are victims of various types of cancer. Total to the attention of researchers got 31,953 human. Analysis showed that receiving TCA reduces the risk of bowel cancer and gliomas, but does not affect the risk of developing other cancers, such as tumors of the lung, breast and prostate.
According to the authors of the study, which is published in the journal British Journal of Cancer, TCA can be a preventive measure to prevent cancer. It is possible that on the basis of tricyclic antidepressants scientists can create special drugs that will be issued to people who are at risk.
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