Does Quitting Smoking After Lung Cancer Diagnosis Help Improve Survival Rates?

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As per the findings of Annals of Internal Medicine, quitting smoking after lung cancer diagnosis may help improve lung cancer prognosis.

 

If you look globally, the cases of lung cancer are still on the rise. On the occasion of World Cancer Day on February 4th, we all need to first know the consequences of smoking before going ahead.

This post is for those who have been diagnosed lung cancer mainly because of their continued smoking habits. As per a study conducted in this rrgard, out of 717 lung cancer patients who were also smokers decided to quit smoking.

Those who quit smoking were managed to live a longer and stress free life as compared to others.

The research team actually got motivating results after their findings. They concluded that patients who quit smoking after they were diagnosed with non-small cell lung cancer (early stage) started having slower progression of disease and mortality rates.

 

Many Lung Cancer Patients Quit Smoking Following Diagnosis

There was an earlier report published in a leading Thoracic Oncology general according to which patients who got enrolled with in a phase III early-stage trial, they found them with high rate of smoking reduction.

If you go by the study, it clearly signifies that there is a direct relation between smoking and lung cancer. It’s because when majority of patients who were diagnosed with lung cancer decided to quit smoking, they started leading an improved life than before.

 

Smoking: Who’s At the Risk?

When we talk about smoking, there are various factors that decide the prevalence of a disease.

In general, smoking in any form is dangerous. If you look at the international stats, lung cancer continues to be the most common cause of cancer death.

As per the WHO (World Health Organization), eliminating tobacco use can actually prevent over 90% cases.

This is what Aaron Mansfield, who’s an oncologist at the Mayo Clinic stated, “That’s one of the misconceptions, “Tobacco use is clearly the greatest risk factor for developing lung cancer, but there are many other risk factors that we don’t know about. You need to be at risk of developing lung cancer. Is only the lungs. “

He says exposure to indirect smoking also leads to the risk of developing lung cancer. There are many other factors that improve the risk of developing lung cancer like exposure to asbestos, radon gas, some other carcinogenic agent or a family history of lung cancer.

There are people who don’t face risk factors in such cases. Most common symptoms of lung cancer include chest pain and shortness of breath. Out of these chest pain can be mistaken for pneumonia.

“Many of my patients have been diagnosed with pneumonia,” says Dr. Mansfield. “They received many non-beneficial antibiotics. They came to us when a chest x-ray did not improve the mass that was thought to be pneumonia.”

Some other obvious symptoms of lung cancer include headache, bone pain, weight loss, Hemoptysis and a persistent cough.

In order to determine the exact cause, a biopsy is required. As per Dr. Mansfield, CT imaging or an ultrasound can be implied to establishing such cases.

 

Also Read: E-cigarettes With Nicotine Cause Blood Clotting, Increased Blood Pressure: Study