New analysis suggests that lung cancer patients who quit smoking increase chances of survival
People with early-stage lung cancer may double their chances of surviving for longer than five years by giving up smoking, UK scientists have found.
Researchers at the University of Birmingham analysed the results of ten existing studies, all of which had looked at the effect of quitting smoking on a person's outlook following a diagnosis of lung cancer.
They found that a person's cancer was more likely to come back, and they were more likely to develop another tumour if they carried on smoking after being diagnosed with early-stage lung cancer than if they gave up at that time. They were also more likely to die.
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Reference
- Parsons, A., Daley, A., Begh, R., & Aveyard, P. (2010). Influence of smoking cessation after diagnosis of early stage lung cancer on prognosis: systematic review of observational studies with meta-analysis BMJ, 340 (jan21 1) DOI: 10.1136/bmj.b5569
Keywords: lung cancer, smoking, survival
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