Cigarette smoking implicated in half of bladder cancers in women

Tuesday, August 16, 2011 - 16:00 in Health & Medicine

Current cigarette smokers have a higher risk of bladder cancer than previously reported, and the risk in women is now comparable to that in men, according to a study by scientists from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health. The report was published on Aug. 16, 2011, in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

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