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GUMS & CANCER

Reuters

May 28, 2008

Gum disease may increase the risk of developing cancer, researchers said yesterday.

In a long-running study, male health professionals with a history of gum disease had a 14 percent higher overall risk of developing cancer, Dr. Dominique Michaud of the Imperial College London and colleagues wrote in the journal Lancet Oncology.

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