U.S. study: "CHICAGO (Reuters) -
Smoking increases the risk that men who develop prostate cancer will die from their disease, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
"We compared current smokers to never smokers. Compared to never smokers, current smokers had a 61 percent increased risk of dying of prostate cancer, as well as a 61 percent increased risk of having their cancer return,"
Compared with current smokers, men who had quit for 10 or more years had about the same risk of dying from their prostate cancer as those who had never smoked, Kenfield and colleagues found.
