Cigarette smoking may contribute to worse outcomes in bladder cancer patients

19:00 EST 8 Jan 2019 | AAAS

(Wiley) In a study of patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer who had undergone radical cystectomy, cigarette smoking was linked with poor response to cisplatin-based chemotherapy. Also, current smokers in the study, published in BJU International, were at significantly higher risk of cancer recurrence compared with former and never smokers.

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