Cardiologist Faq

Lung Cancer in the United States kills more people than breast cancer, colon cancer and pancreatic cancer combined. It has a very poor survival characteristic and fortunately is linked to smoking in a large majority of the cases. / Here at Osceola Regional we do non-cardiac thoracic surgery when I am unfortunately seeing the end product of smoking which involves both early and sometimes late stage lung cancer. We do know that stopping smoking makes a difference even for a short time. But patients have to stop smoking for almost 10 years to have the same risk characteristics as a non-smoker.