| The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| Chapter 8 Other Cancers |
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| Other Cancers: Leukemia and Childhood Cancers |
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| An estimated 6% of all childhood cancers and 18% of childhood acute lymphoblastic |
| leukemia cases may result from smoking by the mother. |
| American Journal of Epidemiology 133:123, 1991 |
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| Children of women who smoked 10 or more cigarettes a day during their pregnancies |
| have double the risk of developing acute lymphoblastic leukemia, Wilms' tumor, and |
| non-Hodgkin lymphoma. |
| Lancet, June 14, 1986, p. 1350 |
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| There is a 30% excess risk of all types of leukemia in smokers, except for myeloid |
| leukemia, where the excess risk is 40%. 14% of all leukemias are caused by cigarette |
| smoking, or about 3600 of the 25,700 new cases of adult leukemia per year in the |
| United States. |
| Journal of the National Cancer Institute, December 5, 1990, p. 1832 |
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| The risk of myeloid leukemia is 50% greater in smokers. About 22% of all myeloid |
| leukemias are caused by smoking. |
| Archives of Internal Medicine, February 22, 1993, p. 469 |
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| Up to 10% of cases of acute leukemia in adults could be smoking related. |
| Reuters, November 12, 1999 (from British Journal of Cancer) |
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