Friday, July 27, 2012

Smoking Increase Risk of Colon Cancer

Added one more list of types of cancer that can result from smoking. Researchers from Italy reported that the risk of colon cancer is higher for smokers.

Smoking increases about 18% of colorectal cancer and the risk of death from malignancies is about 25%. It is revealed from the results of a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. People should be more aware that smoking increases the risk of cancer,


Smoking increases about 18% of colorectal cancer and the risk of death from malignancies is about 25%. It is revealed from the results of a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

People should be more aware that smoking increases the risk of cancer, not only in organs in direct contact with tobacco, such as the lungs, throat. But also the organ that is also affected by the evils of tobacco indirectly as pancreas, kidney, bladder, cervix, colon and rectum.

This is explained by Edoardo Botteri, an expert involved in the study of Eropean Institute of Oncology in Milan, Italy.

Tobacco is responsible for more than 100 million deaths over the last century, and more than five million deaths a year.

Nevertheless the results of this study indicate that up to now there is more than one billion smokers in the world selurah. As many as 8% of lung cancer caused by smoking.

Research on smoking as a cause of colon cancer are still being conducted by experts. Botteri research by processing data from 10 observations with a variety of trials.

So if now you have started to consider quitting smoking?