Smoking Status and Recurrence in Oral Tongue Squamous Cell Carcinoma: Evidence for Convergent Clinical Behavior
Jaafar A Hadi, Guojun Li, Zohra N Nizami, Jennifer Wang, Bridget Reeves, Ratna Veeramachaneni, Dianna Roberts, Lorena Isabel Gomez, Humam Kadara, Mena Mansour, Jeffrey N Myers · 2026
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Jaafar A Hadi and co-authors published a journal article in 2026 on smoking and cancer recurrence in squamous cell cancer of the oral tongue. Tumors in never-smokers and smokers look genetically similar, raising the question of whether smoking drives return of this cancer. Two patient groups treated at one cancer center were analyzed.
The discovery group held 86 patients and the validation group 410 patients, after removing overlaps. No significant differences in disease-free survival appeared by smoking status or by amount smoked. Adjusted risk ratios sat near 1.0 in the discovery group, at 0.96 for status and 0.99 for exposure. The validation group matched. The authors conclude smoking was not independently tied to recurrence and call for larger prospective studies.
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| CREATOR | Jaafar A Hadi, Guojun Li, Zohra N Nizami, Jennifer Wang, Bridget Reeves, Ratna Veeramachaneni, Dianna Roberts, Lorena Isabel Gomez, Humam Kadara, Mena Mansour, Jeffrey N Myers |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 32972 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |