It is unfortunate this precise relationship was not previously known.
Please find ways to stay away from smoke, if on cisplatin.
The truth about the use of Cisplatin is, after 2 years, you die of a different cancer, usually Lung cancer
Where did they find a cancer patient undergoing chemotherapy to prove this on? Chemo has by itself damn near killed everyone I know who had to do it. I haven’t met any who wanted to hang with a bunch of smokers. I’m glad I got through prostate cancer with radiation. I also didn’t feel like sex or a cigarette when it was over.
How about wood smoke from wood stoves. How about all those exposed to the forest fire smoke. How about those exposed to car exhaust. Smoke from greasy food. Are they all magically different?
I have decided that if I get cancer, I refuse chemo. It hasn’t helped anyone that I know of who had cancer.
“...Queimado and her team exposed head and neck cancer cells to secondhand smoke for 48 hours...”
Done in laboratory setting outside of a living person. Biological processes behave differently in vitro vs in situ. For openers.
I used to smoke cigarettes - a lot. Had two simple rules: (1) Never smoke around anyone who doesn’t smoke. This of course included especially pregnant women and anyone sick in any way. (2) Don’t throw the butts on the ground. IOW don’t litter.
It’s called common courtesy and decency.
Seems to me that secondhand smoke is not the problem but rather points toward other lifestyle factors a person living in close proximity to smokers might have... birds of a feather type thing.
There’s my neighbor who has Buerger’s Disease from smoking. They amputated her toes on one foot. For two years she had other surgeries and now she’s in a wheelchair with no legs below her knees. Then lung cancer appeared
She never stopped smoking even during chemo, and she still does AFAIK.
When the report includes the words “study finds,” be skeptical.
Suuuure...how many things did they not test in their campaign to blame smokers?