Hi,
I've just posted a story to the news section of the OCF site of an abstract of a journal article from the Journal of Alcohol and Alcoholism that surveyed all available studies relating to the continuation of drinking after a diagnosis of upper aerodigestive tract cancer.

The key result:
"Between 34 and 57% of oral cancer patients continue to drink alcohol after cancer diagnosis. Continued drinking increases complications from surgery, increases the likelihood of recurrent cancer, and reduces disease-specific survival."

The article can be found at:
http://oralcancernews.org/wp/clinic...sis-of-upper-aerodigestive-tract-cancer/

Food for thought! - Sheldon

Last edited by Webmaster; 10-28-2014 09:43 PM.

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