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Patients with laryngeal cancer who stopped smoking before receiving treatment had better survival outcomes, compared with patients who actively smoke.

In a study of patients who smoked when they were diagnosed with laryngeal cancer, those who quit smoking before starting chemotherapy or radiation responded better to treatment, were less likely to need their voice boxes surgically removed, and lived significantly longer than those who continued to smoke.

People who are diagnosed with head and neck cancer often receive a standard type of chemotherapy as part of their treatment.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Dr. Lurdes Queimado, a researcher at the TSET Health Promotion Research Center and director of the Center’s Tobacco Regulatory Science Laboratory, recently published a breakthrough study on

While Oklahoma’s poor health outcomes are rightfully a focus of advocates and policymakers, world-class research is a bright spot in Oklahoma’s health infrastructure.