Poorer Treatment Response in Cancer Patients
If cancer is diagnosed in a smoker, studies have found that quitting smoking
will still be helpful. Even
recent quitters are more likely to recover from cancer than smoking patients are. Continuing to smoke may decrease the effectiveness of
treatment and may worsen treatment side effects. For example, patients who
have received radiation therapy for laryngeal cancer are less likely to regain
satisfactory voice quality if they continue to smoke. Also, wound healing
following surgery will be more difficult if one continues to smoke.
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