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Smoking raises risk for all-cause and cancer-specific deaths in patients with cancer — even among patients with cancers for which smoking isn't a major risk factor. But not all smokers with cancer receive formal tobacco-cessation management. In this prospective cohort study, researchers looked at survival outcomes in 4526 smokers who received diagnoses of any type of cancer and who subsequently were enrolled in a tobacco intervention program at MD Anderson Cancer Center. The program consisted of multiple counseling visits and personalized medication treatment.
Among patients who enrolled in the program within 6 months of their cancer diagnoses, the group who reported having quit smoking at 3 months had significantly longer survival than did …