Smoking cessation in advanced-stage cancer patients can extend life by about one year, highlighting its importance in cancer ...

Smoking cigarettes increases your risk of cancer. Quitting smoking is your best choice for lowering your risk. We know that smoking cigarettes increases your risk of cancer. But how many years of ...

Q: My father, who is 68, just started treatment for bladder cancer. He’s been a smoker since his 20s, and his oncologist is strongly encouraging him to quit. It seems like trying to stop smoking now, ...

The American Cancer Society has just updated their lung cancer screening guidelines in an effort to increase earlier detection. It expands the recommendation of yearly screening via low-dose CT scan ...

“There’s no one who doesn’t know the risks,” says Peter Shields, MD, a professor of internal medicine and epidemiology at the Ohio State University in Columbus. But, he says, nicotine is incredibly ...