IARC-ESMO webinar series: Perspectives on Smoking Cessation and Cancer: Quitting Smoking After a Cancer Diagnosis and Emerging Evidence on Vaping as a Smoking Cessation Strategy

The 10th instalment in the International Agency for Research on Cancer–European Society for Medical Oncology (IARC-ESMO) webinar series will be broadcast live on Thursday 12 December 2024 at 16:00 CET. The topic of the webinar will be Perspectives on Smoking Cessation and Cancer: Quitting Smoking After a Cancer Diagnosis and Emerging Evidence on Vaping as a Smoking Cessation Strategy. The event, which will last approximately 1.5 hours, will include two presentations and a question and answer session. Dr Marina Chiara Garassino, Professor of Medicine and Director of the Thoracic Oncology Program within the Department of Medicine, Section of Hematology/Oncology at the University of Chicago (USA), will chair the event.

In the first presentation, Dr Mahdi Sheikh, a scientist in the Genomic Epidemiology Branch at IARC, will summarize more than a decade of research showing that quitting smoking after a cancer diagnosis can increase median survival by 1.5–3 years and reduce mortality risk by 30–50%. He will also discuss the positive impacts of smoking cessation on treatment success, reduced complications, and improved quality of life, as well as the economic benefits, as demonstrated by cost–effectiveness analyses.

In the second presentation, Dr Giulia Veronesi, Director of the Thoracic Surgery Division at the San Raffaele Scientific Institute and the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University (Italy) will discuss risk reduction strategies for smoking-related cancers. She will present results from studies showing that the introduction of e-cigarettes to promote smoking cessation does not have benefits for smokers and is not correlated with a reduction in tobacco use.

The IARC-ESMO webinar series aims to provide new perspectives or to present new research, to complement the large variety of educational resources that are freely accessible from the online learning platform of the IARC-ESMO Learning and Capacity-Building Initiative on Cancer Prevention. The webinar series is organized with the support of and in collaboration with the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO).

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