Plea to Help Cancer Patients Quit Smoking: Death Risk

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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.

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Plea to Help Cancer Patients Quit Smoking: Death Risk

The risk did not fall with time, suggestin...

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