Studies have long linked smoking and cancer of the cervix, which is expected to kill at least 6,000 women in the U.S. this year. Now a new study has not only confirmed the link but also concluded that women who breathe smoke from others' cigarettes -- so-called passive smoke -- are equally at risk for cervical cancer.
The report, the first thorough evaluation of the effects of smoking on women with cervical cancer, was published last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association by a team of researchers at the University of Utah Medical School. It found that women...
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