According to researchers at Harvard University and the University of California, the men were smokers at the time of diagnosis 61% face a higher risk of death from prostate cancer, and 61% higher also will re-experience a similar illness than those who do not smoke.
Between smokers and nonsmokers whose cancer has not spread at diagnosis, otherwise known as non-metastatic cancer, smokers face the risk of death from prostate cancer 80% higher.
Meanwhile, among the smokers who had quit for 10 years or more, the level of risk of death or re-exposed to prostate cancer as those who are not smokers.
"These data are interesting because so far little is known about the ways for a man to avoid the risk of death from prostate cancer," says Edward Giovannucci, a Harvard professor who co-authored a study published the Journal of the American Medical Association that.
"For smokers, quitting can have an impact on the risk of death from prostate cancer. This is another reason not to smoke," said Giovannucci, as reported by AFP earlier this week (21 / 6).
Prostate cancer is a type of cancer that palng diidap men in the United States, and on at least one of every six American men during his life. Based on medical records during the year 1986-2006 as many as 5366 men diagnosed with prostate cancer. And found that of 1630 deaths occurred among them, a number of 524 or 32% due to prostate cancer and 416 (26%) due to heart disease .*
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