Iron reduction via periodic calibrated phlebotomy to target ferritin lowers cancer incidence and mortality in patients with peripheral artery disease: further insights from the FeAST trial.

Front Oncol · 2025 · PMC12689412 · PMID 41383516

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In addition, in post-hoc analyses, smoking tobacco was of borderline significance for being an effect modifier for total mortality, and since smoking tobacco has decreased since the study was done, the results even in the narrow VA population targeted earlier could have been different had the study been done today ( 7 ).

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