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How Smoking Rewires Your Immune System to Drive Pancreatic Cancer

How Smoking Rewires Your Immune System to Drive Pancreatic Cancer

Update: 2025-11-05
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  • Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest cancers, and smoking pushes the disease to appear earlier in life and progress more aggressively
  • Chemicals in cigarette smoke flip immune cells into roles that protect tumors instead of fighting them, leaving your body defenseless
  • Smokers build up more regulatory T cells, which shut down natural anti-cancer immunity and make treatment outcomes worse
  • Cigarette smoke activates scarring and chronic inflammation in your pancreas, creating a hardened environment where tumors thrive and resist therapy
  • Quitting smoking is a direct way to protect your pancreas and lower your cancer risk
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How Smoking Rewires Your Immune System to Drive Pancreatic Cancer

How Smoking Rewires Your Immune System to Drive Pancreatic Cancer

Dr. Joseph Mercola