Cigarette smoke can harm kitty, too. (Environment).Warning: Smoking cigarettes can cause cancer--in your pets. That conclusion emerges from a new survey of the home environments of nearly 200 cats hospitalized at the Tufts University Tufts University, main campus at Medford, Mass.; coeducational; chartered 1852 by Universalists as a college for men. It became a university in 1955. Jackson College, formerly a coordinate undergraduate college for women, merged with the College of Liberal Arts in School of Veterinary Medicine veterinary medicine, diagnosis and treatment of diseases of animals. An early interest in animal diseases is found in ancient Greek writings on medicine. Veterinary medicine began to achieve the stature of a science with the organization of the first school in the in North Grafton, Mass. Eighty of the cats had malignant lymphoma--a feline corollary to non-Hodgkin's lymphoma non-Hodg·kin's lymphoma n. Any of various malignant lymphomas characterized by the absence of Reed-Sternberg cells. Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in people; the other cats were diagnosed with a comparably serious disease having no link to smoking. Compared with animals living in smoke-free homes, cats who dwelled for some time with a smoker at least doubled their risk of developing the cancer, report Elizabeth R Elizabeth R is a BBC television drama serial that was broadcast in six, 85 minute parts on terrestrial channel BBC Two from February to March 1971. Starring Glenda Jackson in the title role, it was a largely accurate, historical portrayal of the life of Elizabeth I of . Bertone of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and her colleagues in the Aug. 1 American Journal of Epidemiology. The longer cats were exposed and the smokier their domicile domicile (dŏm`əsīl'), one's legal residence. This may or may not be the place where one actually resides at any one time. The domicile is the permanent home to which one is presumed to have the intention of returning whenever the purpose , the worse their risk. Those in the highest exposure group faced almost a quadrupling in lymphoma risk. As cancers go, this lymphoma is relatively common, Bertone notes. She says that it strikes up to 75 cats per 100,000--or nearly four times the human incidence of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Most of the cats' lymphomas in the new study started in the nasal or gastrointestinal area, which would be consistent with exposures from inhalation of smoke particles or particle ingestion ingestion /in·ges·tion/ (-chun) the taking of food, drugs, etc., into the body by mouth. in·ges·tion n. 1. The act of taking food and drink into the body by the mouth. 2. as the animals groom their fur. The new findings prompted the veterinary group to look for other smoke-linked health effects, including oral cancer, that also might reflect exposure to smoke particles during grooming. A preliminary look at those new data, Bertone told Science News, is pointing to "findings that are similar [to those for lymphoma], though not as dramatic."--J.R. |
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