Periodontal disease linked to increased risk of several cancers

Periodontal disease has been associated with an increased risk of several types of cancer in postmenopausal women, a new study published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, revealed. The findings applied to women who had never smoked as well as those who had. The researchers conducted a prospective cohort study of 65,869 women aged 54- 86 who were enrolled in the Women’s Health Initiative Observational Study. The women self-reported periodontal disease on questionnaires administered between 1999 and 2003. The researchers monitored cancer outcomes through September 2013. Over an average