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Does Preoperative Smoking Cessation Reduce Surgical Morbidity After Lung Resection?

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Delayed surgical resection for non-small-cell lung cancer is associated with decreased survival. For patients who smoke, tobacco use at the time of surgery is a risk factor for pulmonary and overall surgical complications. While smoking cessation decreases the risk of postoperative pulmonary complications, there is no ideal time cut-off past which the risk of morbidity significantly decreases. Therefore, smoking cessation should be encouraged as early as possible for all patients, but delaying surgery for active smokers to extend preoperative smoking cessation is unnecessary.

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  1. University of California, Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA, USA

    Michelle A. Wan

  2. Section of General Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of California, Davis Health, Sacramento, CA, USA

    Lisa M. Brown

  3. Outcomes Research Group, Department of Surgery, University of California, Davis Health, Sacramento, CA, USA

    Lisa M. Brown

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Wan, M.A., Brown, L.M. (2020). Does Preoperative Smoking Cessation Reduce Surgical Morbidity After Lung Resection?. In: Ferguson, M. (eds) Difficult Decisions in Thoracic Surgery. Difficult Decisions in Surgery: An Evidence-Based Approach. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47404-1_7

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