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Smoking and Kidney Cancer

by Savitha C Muppala on May 18 2011 6:58 AM

Heavy smoking may elevate kidney cancer risk, a recent study from the Duke University Medical Center has outlined.

 Smoking and Kidney Cancer
Heavy smoking may elevate kidney cancer risk, a recent study from the Duke University Medical Center has revealed.
The risk was almost double for smokers as well as for those who have smoked in the past and given up, researchers revealed.

But the silver lining is that the risk decreased by 9 percent for every decade a former smoker remained smoke-free.



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