Male smokers increase risk of prostate cancer recurrence

Researchers from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and University of California, San Francisco, have found that men with prostate cancer who smoke increase their risk of prostate cancer recurrence and of dying from the disease.

The researchers found a link between smoking at the time of prostate cancer diagnosis and aggressive prostate cancer and concluded that men with prostate cancer who were current smokers had a 61 percent increased risk of dying from prostate cancer, and a 61 percent higher risk of recurrence compared with men who never smoked.