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Connecting the dots—helping cancer patients to quit smoking

Although doctors and nurses who treat patients with cancer know how harmful tobacco use can be, efforts to help patients quit are not a well-integrated part of overall cancer care. Researchers at Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Iowa have received a two-year, $500,000 grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to develop strategies to improve tobacco cessation interventions for patients with cancer.

The project, funded by the NCI as part of the Cancer Moonshot initiative, is part of a larger nationwide effort to improve the delivery of treatment for tobacco use in patients receiving care in comprehensive cancer centers. David Katz, MD, UI associate professor of internal medicine and epidemiology, and Mark Vander Weg, PhD, associate professor of internal medicine and psychological and brain sciences, will lead the UI project.

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