Ask the doctor: Should I be worried about my blood pressure medication causing cancer?
Does this mean that all ARBs cause cancer? Or is telmisartan the only ARB that does? Or is the risk limited to a slightly increased rate of lung cancer? No one really knows at this point. The fact is that this study is a backward look at data originally collected by researchers who were not focusing on the risk of cancer from these drugs. In fact, most of the trials were probably too short to detect an increased risk of cancer.
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