Smoking and Cancer

Smoking increases mortality rates by 40% in people who smoke fewer than 10 cigarettes daily, by 70% in people who smoke 10-19 per day, by ninety percent in people who smoke 20-39 per day, and by 120% in people smoking two packs or daily. Research from the Canadian Lung Association found that smoking kills between 40,000 – 45,000, over the number of deaths caused accidental poisoning, AIDS, murder, fires, by traffic injuries and suicide. 50% of smokers may die of illness.

Those who’ve ever smoked tobacco have a one in ten chance of developing cancer of the lung. However, if an individual successfully stops smoking their risks progressively decrease as the harm inflicted on their bodies is repaired. The benefits of stopping smoking are immediate: heart rate, blood pressure level, and temperature return to normal, the myocardial infarction risk decreases, and circulation improves.

Smokers experience many more negative effects than nonsmokers:

• Smoking increases risk of many diseases including, cancer, heart disease, stroke, diabetes and more.
• Many smokers have oral health problems.
• Erectile dysfunction is 85% higher in smokers than it is in nonsmokers.
• Smoking can contribute to a loss of appetite.
• Adolescent smokers may experience a decrease in memory and cognitive capabilities.
• Smoking can cause many forms of cancer, especially cancer of the lung, cancer of the kidney, cancer of the larynx and neck and head, breast cancer, urinary bladder, esophagus, pancreas, and stomach.

You can’t go back on your decision to smoke, and you can’t reverse a cancer diagnosis. But Massive Bio can help treat the harm done to your body by smoking and cancer development by getting you access to perfect clinical trials for your individual case and assisting in every part of the way. A patient advocate can assist you with trial matching, qualifying and enrollment.