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Gum disease and tooth loss may presage pancreatic cancer!

If you have any sort of gum-disease or tooth-loss and your doctor associates, it with increased risk of pancreatic cancer then you should not get surprised as U.S. researchers have strongly associated gum-disease or tooth-loss with pancreatic cancer.

To expound this association more vehemently researchers claim that they have found strong link between pancreatic cancer and gum-disease or tooth-loss even in non-smokers.

Still, it would be too premature to give an opinion on the whole issue. However, one thing can certainly be said that if really there is any kind of veracity in this association then it is a really a godsend for the doctors as well as patients as it would help them detecting pancreatic cancer sooner thus would make possible early treatment.

Image credit: Reuters

Via: Med Page Today

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