from Philip Dawdy's site: "Patients with schizophrenia taking antipsychotics had a 308% increased colon cancer risk." Interestingly, they had a slightly lower risk of respiratory cancer than other populations, which is kind of interesting given how many people with schizophrenia blow through cigarettes. And, then, the study's conclusion: "The increased risk of colon cancer is particularly marked in patients with schizophrenia who take antipsychotic medications." I'm not making this stuff up people. Just passing along independent peer-reviewed research, the kind that makes you wonder if psychiatrists actually happen to read academic journals, given current practices in the industry. That's not to say that anti-psychotics cause colon cancer per se--that would require further study--but something rather ugly is clearly going on here.