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My brother had gillian barrs syndrome can this give him cancer?
3 doctors weighed in across 2 answers
Contravercial: Development of cancers in gillian bare's disease is contravercial , in italian study slight increase not a significant increase is noted. All studies agree ' does not meet the critria for paraneoplatic disease' then the answer will be no it will not give cancer.
Answered 9/20/2012
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No: There's no theoretical reason that this should cause cancer, being a temporary autoimmune process. Dr. Rao is correct that one study made a very weak correlation, and i want to thank him for his diligence. I suspect that in these cases, unknown cancers likely triggered the immune disturbance.
Answered 9/20/2012
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