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The findings were especially remarkable because another research group conducting a case-control study of the same registry — Great Britain's General Practice Research Database, containing records on some six million patients — recently reported no increase in esophageal cancer rates in patients treated with bisphosphonates. Green and colleagues explained the discrepancy by noting that mean observation time prior to diagnosis in the other analysis was substantially shorter, 4.5 versus 7.7 years. Also, they noted, their study used five matched controls for each case, whereas the earlier study had equal numbers of cases and controls. “Our study thus had the potential to include people with longer durations of bisphosphonate use and also had greater statistical power,” Green and colleagues asserted. More at the link…. added by: jubal