Breast Cancer and SmokingTop of Mind with Julie Rose • Season 1, Episode 260, Segment 2
Mar 24, 2016 • 15m
Guest: Michael Passarelli, PhD, Cancer Epidemiologist at the University of California San Francisco School
In the days after a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer, there’s one lifestyle change that could lower her risk of death by 33 percent. It’s to stop smoking.
A study of more than 20,000 women with breast cancer found smoking can increase your chances of getting breast cancer, but also that it’s never too late to quit and improve your chances of survival – even if it’s after you’ve been diagnosed.