Heaviest Smokers Face Greatest Risk Of Death After Lung Cancer Diagnosis

It’s common knowledge that smoking raises risks of lung cancer. And yet researchers haven’t known whether continued smoking by lung cancer patients would increase the risk of the cancer’s spread. Researchers at West Virginia University studying the relationship between death rates from lung cancer and how much a person smoked have found that smoking intensity in fact predicts how the disease will progress.

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Filed under: Clinical Trials on June 5th, 2009