Is there a relationship between serum lipid profile, smoking status, and cancer?
A decrease in lipid profile in smokers suggests they might be more prone to develop cancerous conditions due to increased lipid utilization by neoplastic cells.
There is an inverse relationship between serum lipid profile in smokers and cancer patients. The decrease in lipid profile in cancer patients might be due to their increased utilization of lipids by neoplastic cells in membrane biogenesis. Therefore, a decrease in lipid profile in smokers can be assumed that they might be more prone to develop cancerous conditions.
Killampalli et al. (Fri,) studied this question.
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