{"id":166556,"date":"2023-06-27T22:36:16","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T03:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/quitting-smoking-after-cancer-diagnosis-reduces-risk-of-cardiovascular-events"},"modified":"2023-06-27T22:36:16","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T03:36:16","slug":"quitting-smoking-after-cancer-diagnosis-reduces-risk-of-cardiovascular-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/quitting-smoking-after-cancer-diagnosis-reduces-risk-of-cardiovascular-events","title":{"rendered":"Quitting Smoking After Cancer Diagnosis Reduces Risk of Cardiovascular Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quitting-smoking-after-cancer-diagnosis-reduces-risk-of-cardiovascular-events2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Recent advances in cancer diagnosis, treatment, and management have resulted in a <a href=\"https:\/\/acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.3322\/caac.21731\">growing number<\/a> of cancer survivors. Researchers constantly strive to understand new ways to support cancer survivors and help them lead a healthy and happy life post-treatment. This has led to our understanding that cancer survivors have different healthcare needs than their counterparts with no history of cancer.<\/p>\n<p>One concern facing cancer survivors involves cardiovascular disease (<a href=\"https:\/\/acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.3322\/caac.21731\">CVD<\/a>), a general term including conditions that inflict the heart or blood vessels. Many cancer survivors face a <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/eurheartj\/article\/40\/48\/3889\/5637730\">higher risk<\/a> of dying from cardiovascular disease (CVD) than from cancer itself.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the well-known adverse effects of tobacco use associated with both cancer and CVD, about <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/ntr\/article-abstract\/13\/1\/34\/1375307\">20%<\/a> of cancer survivors continue smoking after diagnosis. How smoking cessation impacts CVD risk after cancer diagnosis remains poorly understood. To address this, a team of researchers recently published their study investigating the cardiovascular consequences of quitting smoking after a cancer diagnosis in the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/eurheartj\/advance-article-abstract\/doi\/10.1093\/eurheartj\/ehad199\/7187778?redirectedFrom=fulltext\">European Heart Journal<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent advances in cancer diagnosis, treatment, and management have resulted in a growing number of cancer survivors. Researchers constantly strive to understand new ways to support cancer survivors and help them lead a healthy and happy life post-treatment. This has led to our understanding that cancer survivors have different healthcare needs than their counterparts with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}