Plea to Help Cancer Patients Quit SMOKING: DEATH RISK
Posted on: Wednesday, 18 January 2006, 12:00 CST
By Judith Duffy
RESEARCHERS have demanded that more to be done to help people diagnosed with smoking-related cancers quit cigarettes after a study showed many are increasing their chances of dying by failing to give up the habit.
A study of more than 200,000 Scots diagnosed with cancer between 1986 and 1996 found patients diagnosed with smoking-related cancers were more likely to die of heart and respiratory disease than those diagnosed with cancers unrelated to smoking.
The risk did not fall with time, suggesting patients were continuing to smoke, as giving up can dramatically reduce the chances of getting the diseases.
While a total of 34-per cent of patients diagnosed with cancers unrelated to tobacco consumption were alive after 10 years, the figure for those diagnosed with cancers linked to smoking was just 13-per cent.
The research will be published this year in the European Journal Of Cancer Prevention.
Co-author Paul Aveyard, of Birmingham University, acknowledged that it was a difficult time for patients to be trying to give up the habit and said that in some cases, such as terminal lung cancer, there would be little benefit. But he added that more effort should be made for those diagnosed with cancers which have good survival rates, such as bladder cancer.
Source: Sunday Herald
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