When you quit smoking you begin to reduce your risk for lung cancer and the risk will gradually decrease for 10 years at which time it stays steady. However, it will never decrease to the low baseline risk of someone who has never smoked. Currently fully one half of lung cancers develop in former smokers.
When you quit smoking you begin to reduce your risk for lung cancer
and the risk will gradually decrease for 10 years at which time it
stays steady. However, it will never decrease to the low baseline
risk of someone who has never smoked. Currently...
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The Society of Thoracic Surgeons answered:When you quit smoking you begin to reduce your risk for lung cancer and the risk will gradually decrease for 10 years at which time it stays steady. However, it will never decrease to the low baseline risk of someone who has never smoked. Currently fully one half of lung cancers develop in former smokers.When you quit smoking you begin to reduce your risk for lung cancer and the risk will gradually decrease for 10 years at which time it stays steady. However, it will never decrease to the low baseline risk of someone who has never smoked. Currently... More
