Quitting Smoking Doubles Chances of Survival for Lung Cancer Patients

The first evaluation of several studies on people with early stage lung cancer to see if  what affects quiting smoking had once they were dignosed with the diesease came back with the following findings:

Quitting smoking helped prolong their life:
  Researcfhers at the Universit of Birmingham conducted the analysis of the results and found a five year survival rate of 63 to 70 percent among quitters compared with 29 to 33 percent among those who continued to smoke.
Greater Risk of Tumor Returning
 In patients who DID NOT  quit smoking compared to those who did quit smoking. This led researchers to believe that most of the amplified risk of deak was due to cancer evolution.

Although further trials are required to be certain, these findings could back-up the theory that continued smoking affects the behavior of a lung tumor.  This study seems to confirm that it is never too late to quit smoking, even if you have lung cancer.

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