Syracuse (WSYR-TV) - Doctors say smoking is such an addictive habit that many light up even after they’re diagnosed with cancer.
According to new data published in the online version of the Journal Cancer, researchers have found that a large number of colon and lung cancer patients did not give up smoking, even though they knew it was not good for them.
Investigators looked at smoking rates in approximately 5,300 lung and colorectal cancer patients. At the time of their diagnosis, 39 percent of lung cancer patients and 14 percent of colon cancer patients smoked. Looking at the same patients five months later, researchers found 14 percent of lung cancer patients and 9 percent of colon cancer patients were smoking.
