| 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 |
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| 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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