Although smoking cessation is known to benefit patients with cancer, obstacles exist at the patient, clinician and institutional levels, according to a poster presentation at American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting.
“Even if the patient says, ‘I want to do it,’ and the physician says, ‘Let’s go ahead,’ if the institution doesn’t have a smoking cessation program with trained specialists who can help the patient navigate the smoking cessation experience, it can be very difficult,” Cary A. Presant, MD, professor in the department of