Originally published November 23 2003
Smoking during breast cancer treatment causes you to die
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
This news shouldn't be surprising to anyone: smoking kills you. And if you already have breast cancer, smoking kills you even faster.
- Women with early breast cancer who smoke
during treatment are significantly more likely to die than those who
quit or never smoked, according to a new study.
- Nguyen's team compared rates of recurrence and spread of breast cancer
-- as well as deaths -- in 1,039 nonsmokers and 861 smokers who were
treated with breast-conserving surgery and radiation therapy.
- "This is the most important finding of the study and has never been
shown before," Nguyen said.
- After factoring everything else into the equation, "patients who
continued to smoke during the treatment actually had a 2.5 times
increased risk of death compared with those who quit or never smoked at
all," the researcher said.
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