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| thesurgeon Total Posts: 13 | Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 03:06 pm Smoking reduces the indicence of only 2 cancers - 1. Endometrial cancers 2. Thyroid cancers  |
| lazyguy666 Total Posts: 42 | Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 03:56 pm quite surprised to see this! did a little search for this and no mechanism or hypotheses seem to be put up anywhere and this is a statistical observation at present until now the only positive pointt i knew about smoking was that it reduced the severity of IBD |
| thesurgeon Total Posts: 13 | Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 12:43 am Mechanism: From what i can recall - Endometrial CA is dependent on Estrogen. Smoking reduces the Body Wt, leading to less fat, leading to less conversion of steriods to estrogens. As for thyroid cancer - Something related to above but exact mechanism not known. Note: Thyroid cancer is also more common in women. |
| maithreya Total Posts: 7 | Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 04:44 pm the proposed mechanism is quiet interesting! |