Smoking increases the risk of colorectal cancer

Medical study warned smokers they are more likely to develop colon cancer as well as the risk of death to cancer.

According to the study by Italian researchers published their findings in the latest issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association that tobacco smoking increases the risk of developing colon cancer by 18%, and increases the risk of death because of this malignancy by 25%, compared to non-smokers.

According to the lead author of the study Eduardo Puteri Specialist Biostatistics and his colleagues in the Department of Epidemiology and biostatistics at the European Institute of Oncology in Milan, Italy, the statistical analysis shows a significant correlation between smoking and injuries and deaths from colorectal cancer.

The study focuses on the importance of public awareness that smoking increases the risk of cancer, not only in the Member directly related Bemsrtnat tobacco, such as lung, pharynx, larynx and upper digestive tract, but also in the members exposed indirectly to outputs disintegration tobacco, Kalpnkeraas, kidney, bladder, cervix, colon and rectum.

And remember the statistics contained in the study that tobacco is responsible for about 100 million deaths over the past century, and more than five million deaths a year. However, the study indicates that there is still billion smokers in different parts of the world.

The Puteri and his colleagues analyzed data from 106 studies to monitor and follow precedent, and between these studies experimental Ltd., which include several hundred participants only and surveys and very wide exceed ranges million participants.

When the researchers looked at the general framework of risk that Ojmloha, and found that tobacco smoking is associated with an increase of 18% in the risk of colorectal cancer.

The researchers add that they found there directly proportional to the increase risk of this cancer and the increase in the number of cigarettes and cans consumed per day, and especially multiplied by the number of packs of cigarettes smoked per day by the number of years of smoking.

The statistical analysis shows that the increased risk in smokers start after the tenth year of smoking, and increase incrementally until it reaches statistical significance after 30 years of smoking.

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