Abstract:Smoking tobacco is a known risk factor for both incidence and mortality in a variety of genitourinary cancers, likely due to accumulation and concentration of carcinogens in urine. However, in prostate cancer (PC) there are conflicting results from several meta-analyses. We sought to test the association between current smoking (CS) and past smoking (PS) with the development of prostate cancer-specific mortality (PCSM) in the Veterans Health Administration, a comprehensive medical system with high smoking prev… Show more
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.