Cats living in homes where
Cats living in homes where people smoke cigarettes are more than twice as likely as other cats to acquire deadly form of cancer known as feline lymphoma, according to firstofits kind study in cats conducted by scientists at Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine and the University of Massachusetts. The authors conclude that these findings offer compelling reason for further study of the relationship between passive smoke and nonHodgkins lymphoma in humans, which is similar to lymphoma in cats..
The study, entitled Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Risk of Malignant Lymphoma in Cats, is published in the issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology. Cats living in homes where people smoke cigarettes are more than twice as likely as other cats to acquire deadly form of cancer known as feline lymphoma, according to firstofits kind study in cats conducted by scientists at Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine and the University of Massachusetts.
Tags: cat