Why does smoking increase the risk of bladder cancer?

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Why does smoking increase the risk of bladder cancer?

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09-02-2007, 05:35 PM

lissy111_2000 lissy111_2000 is offline

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Why does smoking increase the risk of bladder cancer?

It seemd obvious why it would cause lung ca, oesphageal ca, and oral cavity ca, but why bladder ca?
Is there a particular carcinogen responsible or reason why it causes transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder?

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