It’s never too late to quit smoking before lung surgery

Smokers who will be having surgery for lung cancer should quit smoking before the operation, and the sooner the better, a new study shows.

Among patients who had surgery for lung cancer, nonsmokers had fewer complications than smokers. But quitting even just a few months before surgery reduced patients’ risks of complications.

“Even a short period of four weeks of preoperative cessation may contribute to a major risk reduction,” said Dr David Lindstrom of Uppsala Academic Hospital in Sweden, who wasn’t involved with the new study.

Nearly 230,000 new cases of lung cancer will be diagnosed in the US in 2019, the American Cancer Society estimates.

 

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