Lung cancer patients who quit smoking live longer
(HealthDay)—Lung cancer patients live longer if they quit smoking around the time of their cancer diagnosis, a new study finds.
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(HealthDay)—Lung cancer patients live longer if they quit smoking around the time of their cancer diagnosis, a new study finds.
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An intervention in the emergency department designed to encourage tobacco cessation in smokers appears to be effective. Two and a half times more patients in the intervention group were tobacco-free three months after receiving ...
May 1, 2015
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Health experts at an anti-tobacco conference in Abu Dhabi defended e-cigarettes on Friday, dismissing widespread concerns that the devices could lure adolescents into nicotine addiction.
Mar 20, 2015
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Tobacco-related diseases are the most preventable cause of death worldwide; smoking cessation leads to improvement in cancer treatment outcomes, as well as decreased recurrence. According to the American Cancer Society, in ...
Mar 13, 2015
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What is it like to be someone who smokes in today's increasingly smoke-free world? How can providers best interact with their patients who smoke and support their efforts to become tobacco-free? A new study by researchers ...
Mar 4, 2015
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Did you know using tobacco products is a preventable cause of death? In the United States, it ranks No. 1 as a cause we can prevent through behavioral change alone.
Nov 4, 2014
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The UK has seen a fall in the number of adults who smoke in the country, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
Oct 8, 2014
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Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) survivors who never smoked or who are former smokers at the time of diagnosis have a lower risk of developing secondary primary lung cancers (SPLC) compared to those who are current smokers, ...
Sep 16, 2014
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Smokers admitted to U.S. hospitals cannot smoke during their stay and could use this time as an opportunity to quit, but few are able to stay smoke-free after returning home. Now a study published in the August 20 issue of ...
Aug 19, 2014
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The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) and the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), in a joint letter responding to a proposal by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to extend its regulatory ...
Aug 12, 2014
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