In honor of the Great American Smokeout, Oncology Data Advisor sat down with Stephen Freedland, MD, the Director of the Center for Integrated Research in Cancer and Lifestyle at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, to discuss the impact that smoking has on prostate cancer, as well as to help raise awareness around smoking and share resources for those who are trying to quit.
In honor of the Great American Smokeout, Oncology Data Advisor sat down with Stephen Freedland, MD, the Director of the Center for Integrated Research in Cancer and Lifestyle at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, to discuss the impact that smoking has on prostate cancer, as well as to help raise awareness around smoking and share resources for those who are trying to quit.
Researchers have discovered a means by which cancer cells can reawaken after years of dormancy, metastasizing in patients who had been experiencing sustained remission. Most cancer deaths result not from the initial tumor, but from cancer that has recurred after spreading to another location in the body. These disseminated cancer cells enter a state of dormancy, in which they do not proliferate and cannot be detected. For this reason, it is not uncommon for patients to experience relapse years o...
California's early adoption of aggressive measures to reduce and prevent smoking has dramatically decreased deaths from lung cancer compared with the rest of the United States, according to researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center. Tobacco smoke contains at least 70 known carcinogens, and up to 90% of US lung cancer cases have been linked to cigarette smoking. Lung cancer rates, note the authors of the study published in Can...
A study recently published in the Journal of Internal Medicine reports that adhering to an anti-inflammatory diet can prolong life, reducing risk of death from cancer, cardiovascular disease, or any cause. This effect is particularly strong for smokers. The study followed 68,273 Swedish men and women, aged 45 to 83 years at the beginning of the study, over a 16-year period. Using a measure which evaluated consumption of 11 potential anti-inflammatory and 5 potential pro-inflammatory foods, resea...
​After a cancer diagnosis, nearly half of patients who smoke continue to do so, even though continued smoking can negatively impact the outcome of their disease. A team of researchers from Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine and the University of Pennsylvania's Abramson Cancer Center has found that lengthening patients' use of an anti-smoking medication can lead to better smoking cessation outcomes for those who adhere to the treatment. "With the stress cancer patients are unde...
The last few years have seen a nearly 10-fold increase in electronic cigarette (e-cig) use, or "vaping," particularly among adult smokers and among adolescents who have never smoked a cigarette. E-cigs are frequently touted as a safer alternative to traditional cigarettes, but new research done at the University of Southern California (USC) reveals that vaping produces some of the same cancer-causing molecular changes to oral tissue that are produced by cigarette smoking. "The existing data show...
The immune system's response to melanoma both improves survival for untreated patients and predicts a patient's response to immune checkpoint blockade therapy. A British study has now identified several genetic factors that can be used to predict a patient's immune response to melanoma. The study has also identified a significant environmental cause of lowered antitumor immunity: cigarette smoking. For the study, published in Cancer Research, investigators used a bioinformatic analysis of 703 tu...
One of the biggest risk factors for bladder cancer is smoking. Evidence has shown that former smokers have a reduced risk of bladder cancer compared with current smokers, but how long does it take after quitting for that risk to decrease, and how much does the risk decrease compared with that of never-smokers? According to a new study analyzing bladder cancer risk in postmenopausal women, former smokers' bladder cancer risk decreases by 25% within the first 10 years after quitting and continues ...