Study Shows Smoking May Mean More Kidney Cancer
Some recent scientific studies have produced evidence that smoking could cause a risk in advanced kidney cancer. Researchers from The Duke University Medical Center reviewed all the data from 845 kidney cancer patients between 2000 and 2009. Results showed that those who smoke or even those you used to smoke, are between 1.5 and 1.6 more likely to get this deadly cancer.
The more cigarettes smoked and the amount of time smoked, meant even more evidence of getting cancer. If a smoker quit, it reduced their chances of getting the cancer by 9 percent for every 10 years they were smoke free.
The team will present their discovery at a special press conference at the American Urological Association’s annual meeting, in Washington, D.C.
Another study scheduled to be presented at that conference showed that the rate of bladder cancer did not fall with the lower rates of smoking in the U.S. that has been seen as of late. The scientists looked at a national database and discovered that lung cancer rates went down, as well as the use of cigarettes between 1973 and 2007, but the same type form of continuing decline wasn’t seen in bladder cancer rates, just kidneys.
Even though the incidents of bladder cancer are down, that decrease could have been caused by other factors. There may have been a decrease in bladder cancer due to smoking levels going down, but that could have been set aside by other factors that contributed to a rise in bladder cancer over the last few year, according to researchers at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse.
Scientists in that article say that the two studies put new light on the role that smoking plays when it comes to urological cancer. For instance, they said that even though kidney tumors are being found these days at a smaller size, smoking still seems to show a much greater risk than if a person never has smoked. If someone stops smoking, it seems to lower the risk of kidney cancer.
But, for whatever reason, a decrease in smokers hasn’t caused the same good results for bladder cancer. You can find more data on the U.S. National Cancer Institute website concerning bladder cancer.
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