Study shows that smoking 'stops' cancer-fighting proteins, causing cancer and making it harder to treat

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Study shows that smoking 'stops' cancer-fighting proteins, causing cancer and making it harder to treat
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Scientists at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) have uncovered one way tobacco smoking causes cancer and makes it harder to treat by undermining the body's anti-cancer safeguards.

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