Alopecia Areata and Malignancies: Uncertainties Clarified by a Large-Scale Population-Based Study

    Khalaf Kridin, Rimma Laufer-Britva, Francisco Jiménez Otárola, Arnon D. Cohen, Baruch Kaplan, Anna Lyakhovitsky
    A large-scale study involving 51,561 patients with alopecia areata (AA) and 51,410 controls found that AA is significantly associated with hematological malignancies (HMs), particularly non-Hodgkin lymphoma, but not with solid malignancies (SMs), except in cases of alopecia totalis and universalis. The association with HMs was stronger in patients with late-onset AA (≥ 50 years). The study suggests a need for further research to confirm these findings in other populations.
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