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Prolonged Opioid Use Associated With Reduced Survival After Lung Cancer Resection

Submitted by: Christopher Anderson

Source: The Annals of Thoracic Surgery

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Author(s): William Z. Chancellor, MD, J. Hunter Mehaffey, MD, MSc, Raj P. Desai, MS, Jared Beller, MD, Rajesh Balkrishnan, PhD, Dustin M. Walters, MD, Linda W. Martin, MD, MPH

Chronic and prolonged opioid use were independently associated with reduced long-term, disease-specific survival after lung cancer resection. These findings provide epidemiologic support for a biological relationship between opioid use and lung cancer progression.

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