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Smoking behaviour of lung and colorectal cancer patients during and after diagnosis. Which factors hinder smoking cessation?
- Source :
- Tobacco Prevention and Cessation, Vol 3, Iss May Supplement (2017)
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- E.U. European Publishing, 2017.
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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
- Subjects :
- 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
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 24593087
- Volume :
- 3
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Tobacco Prevention & Cessation
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....d70e953309209598a7e463a320f351df