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K W Faulkner

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PubMed1983

The effect of cessation of smoking on the accumulative survival rates of patients with symptomatic peripheral vascular disease.

A study of the accumulative survival rates of 133 patients with symptomatic peripheral vascular disease was carried out comparing the survival rates of tobacco smokers and non-smokers. Within the smoking group, those who continued to smoke after the surgery were compared to those who ceased smoking. Of these patients with peripheral vascular disease, 86% were, or had been, smokers. Their survival rates were less than for those who had never been smokers. Of the smoking group, those who claimed to have ceased smoking had almost twice the chance of surviving five years than those who continued to smoke. From these data, we conclude that it is never too late to stop the smoking habit.

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PubMed1981

Comparative survival rates in symptomatic peripheral vascular disease and colorectal cancer.

A comparative study of the accumulative five-year survival rates was made between patients with symptomatic peripheral vascular disease and patients with operable colorectal carcinoma. There was no significant difference between the two groups, but both had a significantly lower longevity than the normal population of the same average age (p less than 0.01). The patients' age at the time of treatment and their sex influenced survival in a similar manner in both colorectal cancer and peripheral vascular disease, there being no significant difference in the five-year survival curves in this comparison. A subset of individuals with colorectal cancer, those with Stage A lesions, were distinguished from the remainder. Their survival was significantly better than that of those patients with peripheral vascular disease (p less than 0.05) and was almost identical to that of the normal age-matched population.

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