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Diabetics using TZDs face higher bladder cancer risk

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Patients taking thiazolidinedione (TZD) drugs – which account for up to 20% of drugs prescribed to diabetics in the US – are two to three times more likely to develop bladder cancer than those taking a sulfonylurea drug, according to a new study published online in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute by researchers from the Perelmen School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

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