Editor's note: this story was most recently updated jan 9, 2020 with additional recalls sept 26, 2019 -- doctors write more than 15 million prescriptions for the heartburn drug ranitidine each. Heartburn drugs cancer lansoprazole. New research suggests that drugs commonly used for heartburn, acid reflux, and ulcers may raise the risk of numerous fatal conditions, including heart disease and stomach cancer.
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Heartburn drug zantac has been found to be contaminated with low levels of a cancer-linked chemical this is the same contaminant that lead to multiple recalls of blood pressure drugs. "a drug commonly used to treat acid reflux is linked to a more than doubled risk of developing stomach cancer," reports the guardian. researchers wanted to investigate whether there's a link between medicines known as proton pump inhibitors (ppis) and stomach cancer.widely used ppis include esomeprazole, lansoprazole, omeprazole, pantoprazole and rabeprazole.. Lansoprazole is a proton pump inhibitor. lansoprazole decreases the amount of acid produced in the stomach. lansoprazole is used to treat and prevent stomach and intestinal ulcers, erosive esophagitis (damage to the esophagus from stomach acid), and other conditions involving excessive stomach acid such as zollinger-ellison syndrome. over-the-counter lansoprazole (prevacid otc) is used to.
