Smoking status and survival by cancer type and treatment intent in a population-based cohort with adjustment for major prognostic factors
E Heervä, A Ellonen, S Kukkurainen, T Mikkola, K Savolainen, T Laitinen, K Mattila, H Blomster, H Minn, H Irjala, A Karlsson, M Bärlund, P Österlund · 2026
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Heerva and co-authors study smoking and survival across cancers in Finland in a 2026 paper. Smoking after a cancer diagnosis is known to harm survival, but large real world proof across many cancers was scarce. The team found patients with solid cancers treated at two university hospitals from 2009 to 2019. Smoking status was pulled from medical notes by a checked computer method and linked to death records.
Among nearly sixty three thousand patients, status was known for about forty five thousand. Five year survival was highest in never smokers, lower in former smokers, and lowest in current smokers. The gap held across most cancer types and even in patients treated with curative intent. Readers see strong grounds for making quit support a standard part of cancer care.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | E Heervä, A Ellonen, S Kukkurainen, T Mikkola, K Savolainen, T Laitinen, K Mattila, H Blomster, H Minn, H Irjala, A Karlsson, M Bärlund, P Österlund |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 43 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |