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Does smoking make a benign cancer turn malignant?
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Yes: Smoking increases risk for oral, neck, lung, esophageal, bladder cancers.
Answered 5/16/2012
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Smoking causes cance: Smoking is the single largest avoidabble cause of cancer. There is no such thing as benign cancer. Most cancer arise denovo. A few like colon cancer and melanoma may arise from existing benign lesions and are not usually due to tobacco.
Answered 6/9/2012
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