Chapter 8 Other Cancers

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Other Cancers: Cervical Cancer

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"The association of smoking with cervical cancer has been recognized only recently;

the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention added cervical cancer to the

categories of smoking-induced disease in 1988. While smokers as a group

commonly have other risk factors associated with cervical cancer (including multiple

sexual partners and the presence of sexually transmitted diseases), at least 12

studies have found that smoking increases the risk for cervical cancer after

accounting for these other factors. Approximately 1,400 cervical cancer deaths each

year (about 31 percent of the 4,514 total deaths) are estimated to be due to smoking."

Cigarettes, p. 17

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Cigarette smoking accounted for about 30% of 13,500 new cases of cervical cancer

reported in the US in 1993, and women who smoke double their risk for developing

cervical cancer.

NEJM, March 31, 1994, p. 910

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A study from London reported a link between smoking and early cancerous changes

of the uterine cervix in women, and suggested that smoking cessation could have a

beneficial effect on these cervical abnormalities.

Lancet, April 6, 1996, p. 941

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