(PRINTWORDS NEWS) The researchers of US National Institutes of Health came up with a recent study that says that women smokers are likely to face higher risk of bladder cancer than previously estimated. The whole study has been published in the Journal of the American Medical Association on Tuesday. The researchers, however, has blamed the change in the content of cigarettes as the primary reason for such rise in bladder cancer in women.
The study also shows that tobacco use is the cause of half of bladder cancer in women, whereas previous study showed only 20-30 percent of cases had the risk of such cancer owing to smoking. Neal Freedman, the study author of National Cancer Institute (NCI) told a reputed media outlet that the changes in smoking habits or cigarette composition over few years is the prominent reason behind the link between bladder cancer and smoking.
The study shows that these changes in cigarette composition or the smoking habit is the reason behind âreduction in tar and nicotine concentrations in cigarette smoke, but also to an apparent increase in the concentration of specific carcinogens, including beta-napthylamine, a known bladder carcinogenâ.
CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) surveyed the smoking habits of the recent US population and came to a result that the number of female smokers equal men these days.
The research also shows that recently the risk of bladder cancer has increased three times than people who never smoked. The risk of bladder cancer in women has gone up to 52 percent, whereas it is still 50 percent for men.
Neal Freedman said that bladder cancer rates in United States have been stable in past 30 years in spite of the fact that the smoking rates have decreased with time. The health officials of United States reported that 69,250 people are likely to be diagnosed with bladder cancer in this year and 14,990 of them will die from the same.
