Low risk of lymphoma in inflammatory bowel diseases in western Hungary. Results from a population-based incident cohort
P Lakatos, B Lovász, Á Horváth, T Pandur, Z Erdélyi, G Mester, M Balogh, I Szipocs, C Molnár, E Komáromi, P Golovics, M Mandel, L Kiss, L Lakatos · Zeitschrift für Gastroenterologie · 2012 · Heft 05
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Background and Aims: Prior studies suggest a small but significantly increased risk of lymphoma in adults with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), especially in patients treated with thiopurines. No data is available from Eastern Europe. Our aim was to analyze the incidence of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in relation to drug exposure in the population-based Veszprem province database, which included incident patients diagnosed between January 1, 1977 and December 31, 2008. Methods: Data of 1420 incident patients were analyzed (UC: 914, age at diagnosis: 38.9 SD15.9 years, median follow-up: 12 years; CD: 506, age at diagno…
