Smoking Causes Kidney Cancer

Some recent scientific research has produced findings that smoking can cause the risk of advanced kidney cancer.

Researchers from Duke University Medical Center reviewed all the data from 845 patients with kidney cancer between 2000 and 2009.

The results showed that those who smoke or even those who previously smoked, is between 1.5 and 1.6 more likely to get fatal cancer.

The more frequent they smoke and the more the number of cigarettes smoked, the more chance of getting cancer. If smokers quit, it reduced chances of getting cancer by 9 percent for every 10 years they are smoke free.

The team will display their findings at a special press conference at the annual meeting of American Urological Association, in Washington, DC.

Another study that will be presented at the conference showed that bladder cancer rates does not decline with decreasing numbers of smokers in the U.S. lately.

The scientists, from the national database found that lung cancer rates declines, and smokers between 1973 and 2007, but the decline was not seen at the level of bladder cancer. The decrease was also seen in kidney cancer.