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Continued smoking after cancer diagnosis ups mortality risk


 

FROM CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY, BIOMARKERS & PREVENTION

Nonetheless, the findings provide strong support for smoking cessation intervention programs that target cancer survivors and should inform future research into the contextual and individual-level factors that may result in inadequate attention to smoking among patients with cancer in the post diagnosis setting, the investigators concluded.

This study was supported by grants from the United States Public Health Service. The costs of publication were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. The authors reported having no disclosures.

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