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IN A STUDY published in The Lancet medical journal, researchers from Britain’s Institute of Cancer Research followed more than 1,800 people who received HGH as children. Fifteen to 40 years later, they were significantly more likely to develop, and die of, cancer.
“Specifically, there were risks about tenfold for colorectal cancer and Hodgkin’s disease,” said study author Anthony Swerdlow, an epidemiologist.
Swerdlow also found the patients had a threefold increased risk of dying from cancer overall.
The scientists say those who got growth hormone years ago as children need to be followed closely.
“Our data do not show conclusively whether cancer incidence is increased by growth hormone treatment, but they do suggest the need for increased awareness of the possibility of cancer risks, and for surveillance of growth-hormone-treated patients,” Swerdlow said.
But how much should people taking HGH today be worried?
Researchers point out that the growth hormone used when the children in the study got it came from human tissue, a practice that was discontinued after doctors discovered it could cause Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease, a fatal brain illness. Nowadays patients receive injections of a genetically engineered synthetic protein.
Although the scientists had no evidence about the effects of synthetic hormone treatments, Swerdlow said it needs to be examined.
Some doctors prescribing growth hormone say there is no danger.
At the Cenegenics Medical Institute in Las Vegas, Dr. Alan Mintz says he has treated more than 4,000 middle-aged people in what he calls age-management medicine. The program includes HGH injections, which he says can help make people feel younger and stronger.
“The typical profile is a hard-charging executive male or female — some very famous people,” Mintz said.
He says in four and a half years, only one of his patients had cancer — and that was in the ovaries
There is also no evidence of it causing cancer among athletes who use it to build muscle mass so far.
But Dr. Hossein Gharib of the Mayo Clinic says other side effects like fluid retention and high blood pressure already make the drug a risky proposition
“For off-label use in anti-aging and body-building or generally increasing vigor and energy, growth hormone should not be used,” Gharib said.
And with a possible cancer link, there’s another reason to question a drug that many see as a fountain of youth.

Mudge

I dont know tons about it, but what I have read makes this a scary thing to use, even for kids it is still controversial.

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