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2. More older former smokers need lung cancer screening, experts say

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   The lung cancer risk to former smokers does decrease over time when compared with similar people who continue to smoke. When compared with never-smokers, however, their risks remain three times ...

3. Lung cancer in people who have never smoked on the rise ... - AOL

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   Lung cancer survival has not improved much in the last 50 years, according to Cancer Research UK, with less than one in 10 (9.5 per cent) of people diagnosed with the disease surviving for 10 ...

4. New lung cancer screening guidelines include heavy smokers ...

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   According to the cancer society's estimates, there will be 238,340 new cases of lung cancer and 127,070 deaths from the disease this year. Lung cancer is so deadly because most people aren't ...

5. Tobacco harm reduction - Wikipedia

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   The consumption of tobacco products and its harmful effects affect both smokers and non-smokers, [9] and is a major risk factor for six of the eight leading causes of deaths in the world, including respiratory diseases, cardiovascular diseases, cerebrovascular diseases, periodontal diseases, teeth decay and loss, over 20 different types or subtypes of cancers, strokes, several debilitating ...

6. National Lung Screening Trial - Wikipedia

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   The ages of the patients in the trial varied from 55 to 74. When their initial findings were published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the researchers reported that low-dose CT scanning was associated with a 20% decrease in deaths from lung cancer, [5] [6] and that this effect was visible in both current smokers and former smokers. [7]

7. Smoking cessation - Wikipedia

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   Smoking cessation can improve health status and quality of life at any age. [217] Evidence shows that cessation of smoking reduces risk of lung, laryngeal, oral cavity and pharynx, esophageal, pancreatic, bladder, stomach, colorectal, cervical, and kidney cancer, in addition to reducing the risk of acute myeloid leukemia. [217]