title: Smokers Die Earlier from Prostate Cancer

Researchers at Johns Hopkins and other institutions examined the association of cigarette smoking with subsequent fatal prostate cancer in approximately 55,000 Maryland men who were first identified in 1963. They found no association between cigarette smoking and prostate cancer incidence, but a tendency toward greater prostate cancer mortality in former and current cigarette smokers earlier in the ten-year followup period.

Current smokers of 20 or more cigarettes per day (rate ratio [RR] 2.38; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.94 to 5.99) and former smokers (RR 2.75; 95% CI, 1.13 to 6.74) had a greater risk of death from prostate cancer during the first 10 years of followup.


Source: Urology

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