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On the cancer note, they have done further studies to show that the earlier stats from the study done in 2006 were very inflated. The chance of getting the specific type of cancer from Remicade and Humira is barely an uptick from the chance the average non-user of biologicals face.

I do not think we are allowed to post hyperlinks, but the newer study can be found on the CCFA site. Below I am posting a summary based on the results:

"So we do have to put things in perspective here. The risk of developing
lymphoma or non-Hodgkin lymphoma, which really is the main cancer that we worry about with these medications, is only about 4 people out of 10,000 people who take it. To keep that in perspective, on no medications, just a random person walking around the street in the United States has approximately a risk of 2 people out of 10,000. So although if you were writing a news article, you might write that these medications double your risk of cancer, really what we’re talking about is 2 people out of 10,000 and increasing that to 4 people out of 10,000."

So in reality the chances of getting it doubles but if you turn it to percents it would be less than 1% bigger risk than a normal healthy person getting it.
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