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Tobacco use and cancer causation: association by tumour type
Author(s) -
Kuper H.,
Boffetta P.,
Adami H.O.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
journal of internal medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.625
H-Index - 160
eISSN - 1365-2796
pISSN - 0954-6820
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2796.2002.01022.x
Subject(s) - medicine , cancer , oncology , colorectal cancer , endometrial cancer , lung cancer , prostate cancer , tobacco smoke , prostate , bladder cancer , pathology , environmental health
. Kuper H, Boffetta P, Adami H‐O (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK; Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; and International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France). Tobacco use and cancer causation: association by tumour type (Review). J Intern Med 2002; 252: 206–224. In the second part of our review we describe the association between tobacco use and risk of specific cancer types. There is evidence for an established association of tobacco use with cancer of the lung and larynx, head and neck, bladder, oesophagus, pancreas, stomach and kidney. In contrast, endometrial cancer is less common in women who smoke cigarettes. There are some data suggesting that tobacco use increases the risk for myeloid leukaemia, squamous cell sinonasal cancer, liver cancer, cervical cancer, colorectal cancer after an extended latency, childhood cancers and cancer of the gall bladder, adrenal gland and small intestine. Other forms of cancer, including breast, ovarian and prostate cancer, are unlikely to be linked to tobacco use.