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Smoking cessation before laryngeal cancer treatment improves survival, retention of voice box, study shows - EurekAlert

In a study of patients who smoked when they were diagnosed with laryngeal cancer, those who quit smoking before starting chemotherapy or radiation responded better to treatment, were less likely to need their voice boxes surgically removed, and lived significantly longer than those who continued to smoke. The research, from the University of Oklahoma, is published in the journal <em>Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery</em>.

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