| The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| Chapter 8 Other Cancers |
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| Other Cancers: Pancreatic Cancer |
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| A study from Harvard Medical School concluded that the proportion of pancreatic |
| cancers attributable to cigarette smoking was 25%, accounting for a quarter of the |
| 27,000 annual deaths from this cancer in the United States. Overall, a smoker has |
| about twice the risk of a nonsmoker of developing pancreatic cancer; someone who |
| smokes more than 40 cigarettes per day has about a five-fold increase in risk. |
| Archives of Internal Medicine, October 28, 1996, p. 2255, and Cigarettes, p. 16 |
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| About 27% of all pancreatic cancer deaths, 6750 each year in the US, are caused by |
| smoking. The median survival period is only three months, and only 3% survive longer |
| than five years. |
| American Medical News, December 5, 1994, p. 33, and Journal of the National |
| Cancer Institute, October 19, 1994, p.1510 |
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| Cigarette smokers have a 70% increased risk of pancreatic cancer compared to |
| nonsmokers. 29% of pancreatic cancer in blacks and 26% in whites is attributable to |
| cigarette smoking. |
| Journal of the National Cancer Institute, October 19, 1994, p. 1510 |
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