What cancers is cigarette smoking NOT a risk factor for?

[TastyCurrantJelly]

It seems like the answer to almost every 'biggest risk factor' question is smoking, so there has to be some where it's not that could trip people up.. list them here

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[coffeesnob]

prostate cancer.

 

[gasknight]

intestinal type stomach cancer.

 

[NeuroLAX]

intestinal type stomach cancer.

FA says intestinal type is associated with smoking.

 

[gasknight]

FA says intestinal type is associated with smoking.

hm, thanks. made a poor inference from a recent NBME question that asked for the greatest risk factor in stomach cancer - and the answer wasn't smoking.

 

[chronicidal]

bronchial carcinoids

 

[chronicidal]

not a cancer, but smoking is inversely correlated with blood pressure

 

[AlmostAnMD]

hm, thanks. made a poor inference from a recent NBME question that asked for the greatest risk factor in stomach cancer - and the answer wasn't smoking.

If it's the question I'm thinking of, was it a japanese dude? "smoke" was still involved in the answer even if it wasn't smoking...

 

[gasknight]

If it's the question I'm thinking of, was it a japanese dude? "smoke" was still involved in the answer even if it wasn't smoking...

Yep, that's the question.

 

[CherryRedDracul]

Melanoma

 

[Frozengrapes]

This might not be related to a cancer, but what is the pathology that improves with smoking? I'm totally drawing a blank, and I think it's only one thing that actually improves with smoking.

 

[KKDDJJMM]

This might not be related to a cancer, but what is the pathology that improves with smoking? I'm totally drawing a blank, and I think it's only one thing that actually improves with smoking.

ulcerative colitis

 

[Docforthepeeps]

It has an anti-estrogenic effect thus lowers risk of endometrial Ca. Source: Pathoma

 

[Enzymes]

Fun fact: endometrial cancer risk is REDUCED by smoking.

 

[J ROD]

Adenocarcinoma in the lungs is the lung cancer not caused by smoking.

 

[GadRads]

hm, thanks. made a poor inference from a recent NBME question that asked for the greatest risk factor in stomach cancer - and the answer wasn't smoking.

Was it age or H. pylori?

NVM: just saw above post. But now I'm wondering about the greatest overall risk of stomach cancer. It should be H. pylori.

 

[dyspareunia]

Was it age or H. pylori?

NVM: just saw above post. But now I'm wondering about the greatest overall risk of stomach cancer. It should be H. pylori.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19107449

Probably h.pylori, although most people are asymptomatically colonized.

 

[Lavan]

This might not be related to a cancer, but what is the pathology that improves with smoking? I'm totally drawing a blank, and I think it's only one thing that actually improves with smoking.

Schizophrenia is also improved with smoking.

 

[Frozengrapes]

Schizophrenia is also improved with smoking.

Oh wow, I wasn't aware of that association at all. Thanks!