{"id":10668,"date":"2016-10-04T17:43:23","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T17:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.viamedic.com\/blog\/?p=575"},"modified":"2012-10-04T17:43:23","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T17:43:23","slug":"women-smokers-double-risk-for-hodgkins-lymphoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edrugstore.com\/blog\/current-health-news\/women-smokers-double-risk-for-hodgkins-lymphoma\/","title":{"rendered":"Women Smokers Double Risk for Hodgkin’s Lymphoma"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It’s not just mouth cancer that can be caused by smoking. This woman is also at double the risk of cancers like leukemia and bone marrow cancer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A study was recently published in the British Journal of Cancer that confirmed and reinforced a link we\u2019re all familiar with: smoking causes greatly increased risk of cancer.<\/p>\n

But what some people don\u2019t realize is that the risk doesn\u2019t just involve cancer of the throat, lungs, and mouth:<\/p>\n

Women smokers are more likely to have cancer of blood, immune system, and bone marrow — deadly cancers not usually associated with smoking. — Click to Tweet<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For example, new research has uncovered that women smokers are at twice the risk of Hodgkin\u2019s lymphoma<\/a> and some types of bone marrow cancer.<\/p>\n

The Research<\/strong>
\nSome interesting research was recently published by Cancer Research UK, which owns the BJC. The research was extensive, and led to conclusive findings.<\/p>\n

Over 1.3 million middle-aged women living in UK were tracked for an average of 10 years before these results were published. The research was part of a landmark study called the Million Women study. Over the course of the tracking, 9000 women developed leukemia, cancers of the immune system, or bone marrow cancers. Six in every 1000 non-smoking women developed cancers of these types, but eight in every 1000 smoking women developed these cancers.<\/p>\n

The important implications of this research are the following: people usually consider smoking a risk factor for only mouth-, throat-, and lung-related cancers, but they need to know that smoking is a generalized risk factor for all cancers.<\/p>\n

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New research on risk for Hodgkin’s lymphoma causes even more reason to limit cigarette packaging. (Photo by MDGovPics on Flickr.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Legislative Reactions<\/strong>
\nCancer Research UK and Jean King, the center\u2019s director of tobacco control, are pushing for new legislation to limit smoking marketers. Under their new proposals, the government would enforce a \u201cplain packaging\u201d rule for cigarette packs.<\/p>\n

The plain packaging would involve \u201creplacing the slickly designed, brightly coloured packaging with packs of standard size, shape and colour [that] will give millions of children one less reason to start smoking.\u201d<\/p>\n

The idea of the new packaging rule is that health warnings should be clear and obvious to all smokers who buy cigarettes, and cigarette companies should also have limitations on attracting younger smokers. The most important consideration is to limit the appeal of cigarettes to young people, which will prevent a whole new generation of addicted smokers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A study was recently published in the British Journal of Cancer that confirmed and reinforced a link we\u2019re all familiar with: smoking causes greatly increased risk of cancer. But what some people don\u2019t realize is that the risk doesn\u2019t just involve cancer of the throat, lungs, and mouth: Women smokers are more likely to have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_autoblog_aioseo_focus_keyphrase":"","_autoblog_aioseo_title":"","_autoblog_aioseo_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-health-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t