3) Tobacco causes around 15 types of cancers in the body including esophageal (food pipe), stomach, colon (large intestine), rectum, and pancreas cancers in the gastrointestinal system and the oral cancers.At Progress Gastro Care, the best gastroenterology hospital in Chennai we are committed to helping our patients achieve optimal gastrointestinal health free of cancer
Strbele, S
, cited in American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
At a molecular level, smoking affects key signaling pathways such as nuclear factor-kappa B (NF-kB) and mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPK) and induces epigenetic modifications like DNA methylation and histone modification [22]
* All models adjusted for age (4060 vs
This highlights a critical gap in clinical practice, emphasizing the need for hepatologists and gastroenterologists to be more proactive in identifying smoking as a risk factor for liver disease progression and in implementing strategies to promote smoking cessation among their patients
