Smoking causes bladder cancer incidence rate increased three-fold

Recent studies have shown that smokers the incidence of bladder cancer three times the non-smokers.

     August 1st issue of "Cancer" magazine said, many years of smoking, as well as smoking a pack a day or more cigarettes in human bladder cancer incidence even higher.

     "Research results showed that smokers, the incidence of urinary tract cancer risk increased significantly." Maastricht University in the Netherlands, Dr. Maurice PA Zeegers and his colleagues reach this conclusion.

     They added that "the number of smoking and smoking age with urinary tract cancer is intrinsically linked." Researchers studied 43 pairs of data were analyzed to study the smoking and bladder cancer relationship. According to their analysis, smoking cessation time less than 10 years, more people than smoking for at least 10 years of people making the incidence of bladder cancer should be higher than 23%.

     Previously had a smoking history of people whose incidence rate is higher than those who never smoked than 2 times. Zeegers and his colleagues pointed out that "smoking is certainly useful. Although there have been persons with a history of smoking incidence rate than those who never smoked is higher."

     The study also found that smoking more than 20 years, the incidence rate of the person than the average person to be twice to three times higher. Started smoking before the age of 20 than people who start smoking later more likely to have on the bladder cancer.

     According to the American Cancer Society (ACS) data, the U.S. this year, there will be 53,200 new cases of bladder cancer, there will be 12,200 people die from this disease.

     Bladder cancer, smoking is the most dangerous factor. Tobacco chemicals into the blood circulation in the post-filtered by the kidneys, and then excreted in urine from the bladder. In the bladder they can damage cells, thereby increasing cancer risk.

     In Europe, nearly half of the male urinary tract cancer and one third of the female urethra are caused by cancer caused by smoking. In the EU, there are approximately 28% of women and 43% of men smoke.