Massachusetts: Quitting smoking early improves the rate of preventing death from lung cancer, researchers say.
Research results have shown benefits of quitting smoking before a cancer diagnosis compared to quitting after a cancer diagnosis.
The study found that the most common type of lung cancer had a 68 percent higher death rate among smokers than among those who had never smoked. The rate is 26 percent higher.
According to the results, the longer the patients quit smoking before the cancer diagnosis, the higher their chances of survival.
The study, published in the JAMA Network Open Journal, is one of the few studies to examine mortality rates between smokers and people who have never smoked. What are the effects of giving up this harmful habit?
Never smoking after a lung cancer diagnosis was associated with a better chance of surviving the disease, but research findings showed clear associations between quitting smoking before diagnosis and a reduction in mortality.
The researchers found that the longer a patient stays smoke-free, the more health benefits there are.
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