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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Prolonged Opioid Use Associated With Reduced Survival After Lung Cancer Resection
Source: The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
Source URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2020.09.015
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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
