Growth Hormone Linked to Colorectal Cancer

Results of a recent study have uncovered a link between treatment with human growth hormone and colorectal cancer. Dr Anthony J Swerdlow and colleagues at the Institute of Cancer Research in the UK found that higher-than-average numbers of adults who had been treated with the hormone during childhood and early adulthood had died from cancer. Further investigations revealed that the patients also had a significantly greater risk than normal of dying from colorectal cancer or Hodgkin's disease.