Cigarette Smoking and Risk of Acute Leukemia: Associations With Morphology and Cytogenetic Abnormalities in Bone Marrow

Abstract

Examining discrete subtypes of disease may permit more accurate assessment of risk. As standardized morphologic classification and cytogenetic and molecular evaluation of leukemia patients becomes more common, epidemiologic studies that take advantage of these advances will begin to contribute to the identification of additional risk factors and mechanisms in acute leukemia.