1. Smoking behaviour of lung and colorectal cancer patients during and after diagnosis. Which factors hinder smoking cessation?
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Vasiliki-Eirini Chatzea, Vasilis Georgoulias, Dimitra Sifaki-Pistolla, Nikos Tzanakis, Christos Lionis, Georgia Pistolla, and Filippos Koinis
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Oncology ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Health (social science) ,Epidemiology ,Colorectal cancer ,medicine.medical_treatment ,colorectal cancer ,Health Professions (miscellaneous) ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,030212 general & internal medicine ,tobacco smoking ,Lung cancer ,Cancer Diagnosis ,030505 public health ,Lung ,business.industry ,lcsh:Public aspects of medicine ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,lcsh:RA1-1270 ,medicine.disease ,smoking cessation ,3. Good health ,lung cancer ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Smoking cessation ,0305 other medical science ,business - Abstract
Introduction To assess the smoking behaviour of Lung Cancer (LC) and Colorectal (CRC) patients at the time of diagnosis and one year after diagnosis. Material and Methods The study took place in the island of Crete, Greece. Data (LC patients=4,421; CRC patients=3,609) were derived from the Cancer Registry of Crete (1992-2010). Participants with I-III stage primary cancer and confirmed diagnosis (histologically/cytologically) were included. Patients with unknown stage were excluded after testing for potential statistical bias. Kruskal-Wallis (one-way analyses of variance) and logistic regression models estimated the risk of not quitting smoking after diagnosis. All tests were two-tailed (a=0.05). Results Overall, 75.1% of LC and 51.4% of CRC patients were current smokers at the time of diagnosis. One year after diagnosis 49.5%% of the LC and 38.1% of the CRC patients were still smoking. Males, public insurance, high number of pack/years, not receiving chemotherapy/radiotherapy, not undergoing surgery, higher number of co-morbidities, advanced cancer stage (III) and alcohol consumption were significant predictors of not quitting smoking one year after diagnosis (p
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- 2017