Sentences with phrase «cancer than nonsmokers»
One study has shown that smokers are 30 % to 40 % more likely to get colon cancer than nonsmokers.
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«The results suggest that for nonsmokers, breastfeeding for more than six months not only provides children with numerous health benefits, but it also may protect mothers from breast cancer,» said Dr. González - Jiménez.
Smokers face more than twice a nonsmoker's risk of pancreatic cancer, and even though smoking has slumped in the U.S., there is a 30 - to 40 - year lag time before we see a corresponding drop in cancer rates.
I have seen many more cases of lung cancer among nonsmokers than smokers in the thousands of patients I have cared for over the past thirty years, but that doesn't negate the studies done on the subject that show only about 15 % of lung cancer cases occur in nonsmokers.