Urticaria Linked to Higher Cancer Risk, Study Finds

had a 49% higher risk of developing cancer in the first year following diagnosis, which decreased to 6% in subsequent years, in a cohort study using Danish healthcare databases.Researchers conducted a retrospective cohort study using data from Danish healthcare registries and compared the incident cancer risk between patients with urticaria and the risk in the general population.

Incident cancers, including nonmelanoma skin cancer, were identified using the Danish Cancer Registry and classified by the extent of spread at the time of diagnosis. Within the first year of follow-up, 588 patients with urticaria were diagnosed with cancer, for an SIR of 1.49 for all cancer types.

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