Breast Cancer and Smoking

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.