Smoking during radiation treatments reduces chance of overall survival
Wednesday, February 16, 2011 - 12:00
in Health & Medicine
Smokers who continue to smoke while undergoing radiation treatments for head and neck cancer fare significantly worse than those who quit smoking before therapy, according to a study in the February issue of the International Journal of Radiation OncologyBiologyPhysics, an official journal of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO).