2004 JUL 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Cigarette smoking can adversely affect length of remission and survival time in patients with leukemia, researchers say.
"Recent cohort and case-control studies have suggested that cigarette smoking may be involved in the etiology of leukemia. Rising trends have been observed for all leukemias when the amount of cigarettes smoked increased," investigators in France report.
"However, the magnitude of the trend was strongest for myeloid leukemia. Although no detailed biological mechanism has been proposed, a causal link is made plausible by evidence of systemic effects of cigarette smoke and the presence in cigarette …
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