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The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| | Chapter 8 Other Cancers |
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| | Other Cancers: Kidney, Bladder, and Prostate Cancer |
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| | Smoking is responsible for 30% to 40% of all bladder cancers; active smokers have |
| | as much as seven times the risk for bladder cancer and five times the risk for cancer |
| | of the renal pelvis as nonsmokers. |
| | Clinics in Chest Medicine, December 1991, p. 645 |
| | tobacco reference guideg (artefact pour saut |
| | "One study has estimated more than a doubling of penile cancer risk among men who |
| | smoke more than 10 cigarettes per day as compared with nonsmokers. Another |
| | study has estimated more than a tripling of risk for people with a history of more than |
| | 45 pack-years." |
| | Cigarettes, p. 96 |
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| | Smoking has not been determined to increase risk for prostate cancer, but if men with |
| | prostate cancer smoke, the smoking appears to cause their cancer to become more |
| | invasive and aggressive. |
| | Cigarettes, p. 96 |
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| | In a nine-year study of 450,000 men, those who developed prostate cancer and |
| | continued to smoke had a 34% greater likelihood of dying from the prostate cancer |
| | than men who had never smoked. |
| | American Journal of Epidemiology 145:466, 1997 |
| | tobacco reference guideg (artefact pour saut |
| | Women who smoke and who are infected with genital warts have a much higher risk |
| | of genital and vulvar cancer than other women. |
| | Reuters and ABC News, October 14, 1997 |
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