Cancer of the pancreas is a particularly nasty type cancer

A new scientific research project shows that people who can show a family history of cancer the pancreas are much more likely to get it if they smoke. The study suggests that tobacco can trigger this very dangerous type of cancer and thus they should stay well away from cigarettes.

The scientific research was done at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute based in Buffalo, New York and over 800 individuals who had pancreatic cancer were examined and their case histories studied. The researchers noted that those individuals who had a family history of cancer of the pancreas were more probable to get the disease at a young age and they were also much more likely to be cigarette smokers.

One of the scientists involved in the research said that it is commonly known among health professionals that smoking can increase the chances of somebody getting cancer of the pancreas but it was not previously known that the smoking would bring on the cancer of the pancreas in people who had a history of the illness at a much earlier age.

The scientists said that people who were in the risk bracket of getting hereditary cancer of the pancreas should be given extra warnings about the dangers of cigarettes and if they were already smokers they should be immediately enrolled into a smoking cessation program of some sort to make them quit.

Cancer of the pancreas is a particularly nasty type cancer as it tends to spread to different areas of the body before it can be detected and this means that the chances of you recovering from it are extremely slim.

Smoking is known to activate a whole list of different types of cancer is specially lung cancer and those cancers associated with the respiratory system.