Sunday, February 27, 2011

Survival in cancer patients hospitalised for psoriasis: a population-based cohort study in Sweden

Abstract

Background:  Increased cancer risk after psoriasis has been observed in previous studies, whereas little is known about the prognosis in cancer patients with previously diagnosed psoriasis.


Objective:  We aimed at examining the cancer-specific and overall mortality among psoriatic cancer patients compared with the reference.


Methods:  The population-based Swedish registers were used to identify psoriatic cancer patients and cancer patients without psoriasis. We used Cox regression model to estimate hazard ratios (HRs), showing the probability of death between 2 groups.


Results:  A total of 1,746 psoriatic cancer patients and 1,011,757 other cancer patients were ...

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