Tuesday, September 15, 2020

Cigarette smoking associated with worse outcomes for bladder cancer patients after surgery

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-09/uosc-csa091120.php

News Release 15-Sep-2020
University of Southern California - Health Sciences

Patients treated for bladder cancer with a surgery known as radical cystectomy have worse outcomes if they are smokers, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis by Keck Medicine of USC. The study appeared in The Journal of Urology.

"This study is important because while it is known that tobacco smoking is the leading cause of bladder cancer, this is the first study to suggest that smoking puts bladder cancer patients at risk after diagnosis," says Giovanni Cacciamani, MD, lead author of the study and assistant professor of research urology at the Keck School of Medicine of USC.

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