Quitting smoking after being diagnosed with kidney cancer lowers the risks of cancer progression and mortality

A new prospective study of more than 200 adults who were current smokers when they were diagnosed with kidney cancer, published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, provides robust evidence that quitting smoking after being diagnosed with kidney cancer significantly improves survival and lowers the risk of disease progression.

This report is based on a 15-year collaborative study between the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation. This study recruited 212 patients with newly diagnosed renal cell carcinoma who were current smokers, from the Department of Urology of the N.N. Blokhin National Medical Research Center of Oncology in Moscow (Russian Federation), and followed them up annually for an average of 8 years to record any changes in their smoking behaviour and disease status.

Sheikh M, Mukeriya A, Zahed H, Feng X, Robbins HA, Shangina O, et al.
Smoking cessation after diagnosis of kidney cancer is associated with reduced risk of mortality and cancer progression: a prospective cohort study
J Clin Oncol, Published online 29 March 2023;
https://doi.org/10.1200/JCO.22.02472

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