The Tobacco Reference Guide
by David Moyer, MD.

Chapter 8 Other Cancers

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Other Cancers: Oral Cancer

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Patients with head and neck cancer who continue to smoke during radiation therapy

have lower rates of response (45% vs 75%) and poorer two-year survival rates (39%

vs 66%) than patients who do not smoke during radiation therapy.

NEJM, January 21, 1993, p. 159

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