Postdiagnosis Smoking Cessation and Survival Outcomes of Head and Neck Cancer Patients.

Head Neck · 2025 · PMC12434553 · PMID 40370118

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Our findings indicated that smoking cessation lowered mortality risk by up to 59% in patients treated with surgery alone, although the reduction in death risk was borderline significant.

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