Ending smoking aids some with cancer
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October 13, 2012, Saturday
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YOUNGER people with advanced lung cancer who quit smoking more than a year before their diagnosis survive longer than those who continued smoking, a US study has found.
However, quitters who were older or who had earlier stages of lung cancer did not have an advantage, said the researchers, whose findings appeared in the journal Cancer.
It's known that people who never smoked are more likely to survive the disease, but whether former smokers do better than current ones has been less clear.
"The findings do suggest there is some benefit to quitting smoking," said Amy Ferketich of Ohio State University College of Public Health in Columbus, who worked on the study.
Her group used medical records from 4,200 lung cancer patients treated at eight cancer centers around the country. For advanced cancers, people under 85 who had stopped smoking more than a year before their diagnosis survived longer than smokers, they found.
Ferketich added that it's never too late to quit.
However, quitters who were older or who had earlier stages of lung cancer did not have an advantage, said the researchers, whose findings appeared in the journal Cancer.
It's known that people who never smoked are more likely to survive the disease, but whether former smokers do better than current ones has been less clear.
"The findings do suggest there is some benefit to quitting smoking," said Amy Ferketich of Ohio State University College of Public Health in Columbus, who worked on the study.
Her group used medical records from 4,200 lung cancer patients treated at eight cancer centers around the country. For advanced cancers, people under 85 who had stopped smoking more than a year before their diagnosis survived longer than smokers, they found.
Ferketich added that it's never too late to quit.
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