U.S. News & World Report - Smoking may make prostate cancer deadlier. Men who are smokers at the time of diagnosis are more likely to see a recurrence after treatment and to die of the disease, according to a study published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Researchers spent an average of eight years following 5,366 men who'd been diagnosed with prostate cancer between 1986 and 2006. Compared with never-smokers, current smokers had a 61 percent increased risk of cancer recurrence and a 61 percent increased risk of dying of the disease. ...
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