{"id":144840,"date":"2025-05-30T19:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T19:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/144840\/"},"modified":"2025-05-30T19:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T19:02:09","slug":"popular-over-the-counter-drug-linked-to-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/144840\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular over-the-counter drug linked to cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"XY5VOZTW45EIRMHWHT2J2FM76Y\">A drug commonly used in treatment for urinary tract infections may carry a risk of cancer, according to a recent study.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"HKZJGUVNRRGOBIRKNEX2LAWXII\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-independent.com\/news\/health\/drugs-cancer-uti-infection-b2760006.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.the-independent.com\/news\/health\/drugs-cancer-uti-infection-b2760006.html\">The Independent reports<\/a> that the study from the <a href=\"https:\/\/ntp.niehs.nih.gov\/research\/assessments\/cancer\/roc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/ntp.niehs.nih.gov\/research\/assessments\/cancer\/roc\">National Toxicology Program<\/a> links phenazopyridine hydrochloride to an increased risk of cancer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"KMLPJT75SVCMNIMJ4WXYNKK4FI\">\u201cPhenazopyridine hydrochloride is reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen based on sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity from studies in experimental animals,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/ntp.niehs.nih.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/ntp\/roc\/content\/profiles\/phenazopyridinehydrochloride.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/ntp.niehs.nih.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/ntp\/roc\/content\/profiles\/phenazopyridinehydrochloride.pdf\">report states<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"BUMJTRNGW5ENPGY5FL7CNI7MX4\">According to The Independent, the drug is frequently used in urinary tract infection medicines, and has been used for decades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"4IO5KOD5TJFF3LPARJ3SV7ZF5M\">However, it is not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and it does generally carry a warning label noting its cancer risks. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"SRYSNAHR7VAPVCKOH6SDLBWDJQ\">The drug was also listed by the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Service as a hazardous substance in 2001, according to The Independent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A drug commonly used in treatment for urinary tract infections may carry a risk of cancer, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4315],"tags":[105,4326,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-144840","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-medication","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114598336496424963","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}