March 2 (UPI) —<\/span> People with lymphoma and blood cancers, as well as those who have lung, prostate or breast cancer, may be at higher risk for having new onset Guillain-Barr\u00e9 syndrome, a study published Wednesday by the journal Neurology found.<\/p>\n In the study, which included more than 25,000 participants, among those who had Guillain-Barr\u00e9m, 2% had a recent cancer diagnosis, the data showed.\n<\/p>\n<\/article>\n In comparison, among participants who did not have Guillain-Barr\u00e9, fewer than half as many had a recent cancer diagnosis, the researchers said.<\/p>\n Based on these figures, people recently diagnosed with cancer had a more than three-fold higher risk for developing Guillain-Barr\u00e9 than people without cancer, researchers estimated.\n<\/p>\n “While our study suggests that people with cancer have a greater risk of developing Guillain-Barr\u00e9 syndrome, it is important that people with cancer know the overall risk of developing Guillain-Barr\u00e9 is still very small,” study co-author Dr. Lotte Sahin Levison said in a press release.<\/p>\n “Our results suggest that yet unidentified factors present in several types of cancer may contribute to this increased risk,” said Levison, an epidemiologist at Aarhus University Hospital in Denmark.<\/p>\n Guillain-Barr\u00e9 syndrome is a rare neurologic disorder in which the immune system attacks nerve cells in the body in error, causing rapid-onset muscle weakness, according to the National Institutes of Health.\n<\/p>\n Symptoms typically start with weakness and tingling in the feet and legs, which spread to the upper body and arms and may progress to paralysis, the NIH says.<\/p>\n Although it can be life-threatening, most people recover with few remaining problems, it says.<\/p>\n The cause of Guillain-Barr\u00e9 syndrome remains unknown, but it has been linked with gastrointestinal or respiratory infections, as well as some cancers, previous research suggests.<\/p>\n For this study, Levison and her colleagues identified 2,414 Danish adults who were diagnosed with Guillain-Barr\u00e9 syndrome over a 30-year period.<\/p>\n For each person diagnosed with the disease, they also identified 10 people without it who were matched for age and gender, for a total of about 24,000 participants, they said.<\/p>\n They then separated out participants who had a recent cancer diagnosis, focusing on those with the disease up to six months before or two months after they developed Guillain-Barr\u00e9.<\/p>\n Of the people who had Guillain-Barr\u00e9, 49 people, or 2%, had a recent cancer diagnosis, the data showed.<\/p>\n Among those who did not have Guillain-Barr\u00e9, 138 people, or 0.6%, had a recent cancer diagnosis, the researchers said.<\/p>\n People with cancers such as lymphomas had a seven-fold higher risk for Guillain-Barr\u00e9, while those with lung or prostate cancer had a nearly six-fold higher risk, according to the researchers.\n<\/p>\n Those with breast cancer were five times more likely to develop Guillain-Barr\u00e9, they said.<\/p>\n “While a majority of Guillain-Barr\u00e9 syndrome cases develop after an infection, there are still many cases that do not,” Levison said.<\/p>\n “Previous studies have suggested there may be a link between cancer and Guillain-Barr\u00e9 syndrome, but just how often people develop Guillain-Barr\u00e9 after a cancer diagnosis has not been well-studied,” she said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" People with certain types of cancer may be at increased risk for Guillain-Barr\u00e9 syndrome, according to a new study. 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\n<\/div>\nPeople with certain types of cancer may be at increased risk for Guillain-Barr\u00e9 syndrome, according to a new study. Photo by Esther Max\/Flickr License<\/div>\n\n