Study: Many Cancer Patients Continue to Smoke
29th Nov 2005, 01:02 GMT
A new report says that despite a growing body of evidence that continued smoking after a cancer diagnosis has substantial adverse effects on treatment effectiveness, overall survival, risk of other cancers, and quality of life, up to one-half of cancer patients who smoke continue to do so or relapse after trying to quit.
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