Cancer still dare to smoke continuously?! The Zhejiang University team analyzed the data of nearly 130,000 cancer patients and found that smokers had a 19% increased risk of death and a short lifespan of 5.9 years

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Do you have a big smoking gun by your side?

To be honest, every time I meet a smoker on the road, I silently think in my heart that smoking is easy to get cancer, smoking is easy to impotence.

Indeed, smoking is particularly bad for the body, healthy people I advise you to quit smoking early! Unhealthy people should hurry up and throw away the cigarettes!

Recently, the research team of Zhejiang University published a paper in the journal Cancer Communications, and the analysis of nearly 130,000 patients in 23 cancers showed that smoking and cancer survival had a significant correlation

Given the relationship between cancer and cancer, do you think a smoker should quit smoking immediately after diagnosing cancer?

Unfortunately, everyone understands the reason, but in fact, the smoking rate of cancer survivors is not much lower than that of the average person, and 64% of the old smoking guns cannot give up this hobby, and still choose to swallow clouds and spit mist every day after being diagnosed with cancer [2].

Why do you persuade these people to save themselves?

Scientists at Zhejiang University systematically studied data from MD Anderson cancer patients and survivors' cohorts, including a total of 128423 patients from 23 cancers, analyzing the relationship between

Of all patients, about 10.

I want to know that the survival rate of smokers who have cancer and do not quit smoking must be the worst! Compared with non-smokers, ex-smokers have a 9% higher risk of death, and smokers are 19% higher! In terms of specific figures, life expectancy for ex-smokers has been reduced by 3.

With the smoke on the edge, survival becomes shorter

Looking at another set of data, the greater the daily smoking, the greater the risk of death, and for non-smokers, patients who smoke more than 21 cigarettes a day increase the risk of death by 32%.

The younger the person who started smoking, the worse the prognosis, compared to those who did not smoke, and those who started smoking under the age of 17 had a 32 percent
increased risk of death.

The larger the daily smoking volume and the younger the age at which to start smoking, the greater the risk of death

So what if you quit smoking early?

It cannot be said that it can completely offset the mistakes made when you are young, but compared with those who continue to smoke, the risk has been greatly reduced, and the risk of those who have been in retreat for 20 years has even decreased by 20%.

The sooner you quit smoking, the better you can save your life

Interestingly, from these line charts, we can find that the harms of smoking and the benefits of quitting smoking are more correlated in non-smoking-related cancer patients
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The researchers believe that this may be because patients with non-smoking-related cancers survive longer, so the effects of smoking and quitting smoking in them have a longer cumulative time
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In addition, it is worth noting that among non-smoking-related cancer patients, the proportion of smoking is also very high, and it is really a long way to persuade people to quit smoking
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Finally, let's look at the relationship between cigarettes and each cancer alone
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Of all 23 cancers, smoking was associated with an increased risk of death from 20 cancers, while previous smoking was associated with an increased risk of death from 18 cancers
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How, after reading this watch, is the smoke still so attractive?

Smoke is associated with an increased risk of death from most cancers

The next time I meet a smoker on the road, maybe I can keep a safe distance and read this article aloud.
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Resources:

[1]https://onlinelibrary.
wiley.
com/doi/10.
1002/cac2.
12357

[2] Tseng TS, Lin HY, Moody-Thomas S, Martin M, Chen T.
Who tended to continue smoking after cancer diagnosis: the national health and nutrition examination survey 1999-2008.
BMC Public Health.
2012; 12:784.

The author of this article dai Siyu