The effect of preoperative smoking cessation and smoking dose on postoperative complications following radical gastrectomy for gastric cancer: a retrospective study of 2469 patients.

World J Surg Oncol · 2019 · PMC6446305 · PMID 30940207

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0.0770

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barely outside the range of significanceP = 0.077so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

Compared with patients with shorter preoperative smoking cessation period (≤ 2 weeks), those with longer interval (> 2 weeks) seemed to have a higher rate of developing symptoms because of the tumor, such as bleeding and/or vomiting due to pyloric obstruction (26.7% vs 21.1%), although the difference was barely outside the range of significance ( P = 0.077).

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a possible trendP = 0.131not close (p > 0.1)

Although the differences were not statistically significant, smokers with smoking cessation ≤ 2 weeks appeared to have a possible trend towards a higher risk of perioperative mortality (5/823, 0.6%), compared with non-smokers (3/1413, 0.2%) and smokers with cessation > 2 weeks (0/233) ( P = 0.131 and 0.233, respectively).

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