Smoking tied to localized prostate cancer recurrence, metastasis, death

A review and meta-analysis shows that patients with localized prostate cancer who were smokers at the time of local therapy have a high risk of experiencing adverse outcomes and death related to that disease. Also today, teens think their parents approve of marijuana more today than they did in the late 1970’s, switching antimalarials can delay immunosuppressive therapy for patients with cutaneous lupus, and a new reason to eradicate hepatitis C: it can reduce the chance of non-liver cancers.

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