{"id":232697,"date":"2026-03-06T14:12:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T20:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/chronic-rhinosinusitis-tied-to-increased-cancer-risk"},"modified":"2026-03-06T14:12:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T20:12:59","slug":"chronic-rhinosinusitis-tied-to-increased-cancer-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/chronic-rhinosinusitis-tied-to-increased-cancer-risk","title":{"rendered":"Chronic Rhinosinusitis Tied to Increased Cancer Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chronic-rhinosinusitis-tied-to-increased-cancer-risk.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chronic rhinosinusitis may be linked to an increased risk for cancer, according to a study of patients in Asia.<\/p>\n<p>The study found that chronic rhinosinusitis was linked to an 18% increased risk for cancer in Korean patients and a 63% increased risk for cancer in patients from Japan. The results provide the first large-scale evidence for an association between chronic rhinosinusitis and the risk for cancer, suggesting a possible role for cancer surveillance in patients with the inflammatory condition, researchers said.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Results from Asia suggest chronic rhinosinusitis is associated with an increased risk for cancer, but whether these results apply to the US population remains uncertain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chronic rhinosinusitis may be linked to an increased risk for cancer, according to a study of patients in Asia. The study found that chronic rhinosinusitis was linked to an 18% increased risk for cancer in Korean patients and a 63% increased risk for cancer in patients from Japan. The results provide the first large-scale evidence [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}