May 31, 2017
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Five updates for World No Tobacco Day
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Today’s observance of World No Tobacco Day features the theme, “Tobacco — a threat to development.”
WHO and its partners highlight actions the government and public can take to combat the global tobacco crisis.
In conjunction with World No Tobacco Day, HemOnc Today presents five updates related to tobacco use and cancer.
- More than one-quarter of adults and nearly one in 10 young adults in the United States report some form of tobacco use, according to the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health study. HemOnc Today spoke with researchers about the preliminary findings and how they hope this research will inform efforts to reduce tobacco use. Read more.
- A telephone-based counseling intervention following lung cancer screening increased cessation rates among smokers, according to study results published in Lung Cancer. Read more.
- Patients with pancreatic cancer who smoked near the time of diagnosis appeared 40% more likely to die after diagnosis than those who never smoked or stopped smoking before diagnosis, according to a prospective study published in Journal of Clinical Oncology. Read more.
- Patients with chronic myeloid leukemia who smoked faced a higher risk for disease progression and death than nonsmokers, according to researchers in Germany. Read more.
- Overall cancer death rates continued to decrease among men, women and children among all racial and ethnic groups. However, the report revealed low survival rates for individuals with tobacco-related cancers. Read more.