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SUBMITTER: Ollberding NJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3797194 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ollberding Nicholas J NJ Evens Andrew M AM Aschebrook-Kilfoy Briseis B Caces Donne Bennett D DB Weisenburger Dennis D DD Smith Sonali M SM Chiu Brian C-H BC
British journal of haematology 20130802 3
We examined whether smoking prior to non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) diagnosis was associated with overall survival (OS) and conducted a meta-analysis to assess the evidence relating pre-diagnosis cigarette smoking with OS. Among 523 NHL patients, worse OS was suggested for greater pre-diagnostic smoking habits when compared to never smokers. In the meta-analysis (n = 5 patient populations), inferior OS was observed for greater number of cigarettes smoked per day, years of cigarette smoking, and pack ...[more]