Tobacco smoking as risk factor of laryngeal cancer

Konopelko Michał, Padała Olga, Krupa Adrianna, Putowski Maciej, Piasek Ewa. Tobacco smoking as risk factor of laryngeal cancer. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2019;9(9):874-878. eISNN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3460534 http://ojs.ukw.edu.pl/index.php/johs/article/view/7508 The journal has had 5 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education parametric evaluation. § 8. 2) and § 12. 1. 2) 22.02.2019. © The Authors 2019; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author (s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non commercial license Share alike. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 25.08.2019. Revised: 31.08.2019. Accepted: 22.09.2019. Tobacco smoking as risk factor of laryngeal cancer Michał Konopelko, Olga Padała, Adrianna Krupa, Maciej Putowski, Ewa Piasek Konopelko Michał, mm.konopelko@gmail.com ORCID:0000-0003-4103-7400 Department of Otolaryngology and Laryngological Oncology, Medical University of Lublin, Jaczewskiego 8, 20 954, Lublin, Poland Padała Olga, olga.padala@gmail.com ORCID:0000-0003-1469-0877 1st Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Early Intervention Medical University of Lublin, Gluska Street 1, 20-439 Lublin, Poland Krupa Adrianna, adriannakrp@gmail.com ORCID:0000-0003-0866-3952 Department of Human Anatomy, Medical University of Lublin, Jaczewskiego 4 Street, 20-090 Lublin, Poland Putowski Maciej, putowski.maciek@gmail.com ORCID:0000-0002-7575-2456 Department of Experimental Hematooncology, Medical University of Lublin, Chodźki 1 Street, 20-093 Lublin, Poland Piasek Ewa, ewa.piasekk@gmail.com, ORCID:0000-0003-3344-4022 I Clinic of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Therapy, Medical University of Lublin, Jaczewskiego 8, 20 954, Lublin, Poland Abstract: Introduction: Laryngeal cancer is one of the most common type of head and neck cancers. It develops due to spontaneous mutation or influence of external factors (physical, biological and chemical). Cigarette smoking is primary chemical risk factor of laryngeal cancers. Purpose: The aim of the review was to present a role of tobacco smoking in the causation of laryngeal cancer. State of knowledge: Many of studies performed past years confirmed the correlation between tobacco addiction and head and neck cancers. 75% of all head and neck cancers are caused by cigarette smoking, which contains thousands of chemicals. More than 60 of them are known as carcinogens. Summary: Laryngeal cancer is the most common head and neck cancer. The prevalence of laryngeal cancer is increased by several carcinogens including tobacco smoking, which is known as the major risk factor of this type of cancers. Keywords: tobacco; laryngeal cancer; larynx; squamous cell carcinom