Q: I have hypertension for the last 25 years. I am on micardis medication. Recently I came to know that micardis causes cancer. Is it true? If it is true then should I stop taking micardis?
A: Recent data suggests that taking a type of blood pressure lowering drug known as an angiotension receptor blocker (ARB) can increase your risk of cancer. Most of the people involved in the clinical studies that looked at cancer were taking the drug telmisartan, also known as Micardis. The risk is felt to be small so you should discuss the need to change medication further with your doctor. Keep in mind more people die every year from heart disease than cancer. The cancer data looked at information from five clinical trials involving 61,950 patients. Participants took an ARB between 30 and 56 months depending upon the trial. Click here for more details.
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Where is the statistics that show more people die from heart disease than cancer? Of all the people that I know who have died in the last 5 years one was from heart disease there were at least 12 that died from cancer.
i am taking atenolol (25mg. is it safe too? i hope i don’t develop cancer in the next 10 or 15 years, thanks so much.
I have had a radical vulvectory which occurred 1 year after I started taking Avalide. I guess this was just a coincidence….but I don’t want to increase chances for a recurrance, and I am asking the doctor to change the medication.
My wife is taking Telmesartan tablets for over one year to lower her systole and she is a diabetic patient who is in control of her blood sugar. Apart from the drug telemisartan she is taking amlodipine also probably to reduce diastole. Dont know the doctor knows this and I will have to draw his attention.
Telmesartan was also prescribed to me by my doctor together with another drug for my high bad cholesterol. I learned thru the internet that telmesartan is a diuretics drug that depletes the calcium in the body and the other drug causes liver damage. I immediately stopped taking these drugs. I am on a daily regimen of prayers, limes and water. I always pray to the heavenly Father that He heals my pains cause He is the “true healer” and with the help of a few limes (about 10) every morning and a few glasses of fine, normal temperature water before eating any solids, I believe I will be healed. So far, at 61, I never experienced the symtoms of hi-pertension and I know I am mentally, physically and spiritually well! It is only my weight that traumatizes me – I tip the scales to 180 lbs. Any help about this?
My mother was on Hydrochiorothiazide,she develope pancreas cancer.She and the family was told by a specilist,that this medicine breaks down the pancreas.When this happens other things can attack it,like cancer.Being number one.
The evidence that telmisarten or other ARBs increase the incidence of malignancy is still not proven. The incidence is so low that more proof is required for any serious conclusions to be made.
The evidence that ARBs are useful in controlling systemic hypertension and is useful in the treatment of heart failure, renal diseases, and for vascular protection have been clearly demonstrated.
The benefit accrued by the use of ARBs in many disease states far outweighs its tendency to produce malignancy so that no patient sholud dicontinue its use based on the published meta-analysis.