HM Hospitals Health Research Institute (IISHM)
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Professor of Pharmacology and Vice-Chancellor for Research and Science at Camilo José Cela University (Madrid), and research member of the 12 de Octubre Hospital Research Institute and the HM Hospitals Health Research Institute (IISHM)
Several recent studies had concluded that the risk of gastric cancer doubled with the use of drugs such as omeprazole – proton pump inhibitors. A new study published in The BMJ states that there is no association between prolonged use of these drugs and the risk of gastric adenocarcinoma. The research used prospective data from registries in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden between 1994 and 2020. The study included more than 17,000 patients with gastric adenocarcinoma (other than cardia cancer) who had been exposed to these drugs for more than one year.