Research showed links between smoking heavily and developing genetic mutations and a greater risk for myelodysplastic syndromes.
SAN DIEGO — A new study linked longer duration and deeper intensity of tobacco smoking to more genetic mutations in myelodysplastic syndrome s , a group of bone marrow cancers that are similar to
While numbers are uncertain, an estimated 10,000 or more people in the United States each year are diagnosed with MDS, also known as preleukemia, according to theMultiple studies have linked smoking to MDS. The new study aims to understand the possible effects of smoking on genetic mutations. This may seem counterintuitive to patients, he acknowledged. When Sekeres was a medical student, he recalled, he counseled a female patient with advanced lung cancer to quit smoking. “The patient looked at me like I had three heads and she said, ‘Why should I stop smoking? The cats are already out of the bag. I have lung cancer.’”
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