Around 25% of people with cancer in the U.S. are active smokers when they are diagnosed, and studies have found that many of ...
Postdiagnosis smoking cessation was linked to significantly longer overall survival among cancer patients across all stages, ...
“Smoking increased the risk of mortality among cancer survivors, even after adjusting for cancer type and stage,” the ...
U.S. cancer centers often ask patients about smoking status, but results of an online survey revealed critical gaps in efforts to help patients quit. Key organizational and provider barriers must be ...
Patients with advanced cancer gained nearly a full year of additional life if they quit smoking, compared to those who kept ...
Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network finds that people with cancer who quit smoking had a much lower risk of ...
In a new study, smoking, a known risk factor for CD, did not impact the sequencing rate of biologics in smokers, former smokers, and never smokers. Smoking cessation should still be encouraged in ...