Helping Survivors of Childhood Cancer Quit Smoking

While many of us can't imagine that our child, a survivor of pediatric cancer, would ever do something as harmful as smoking cigarettes, studies have shown they are almost as likely to smoke as the general population.

The National Cancer Institute's bulletin yesterday featured a clinical trial headed by Dr. Robert C. Klesges of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital: Efficacy of Tobacco Quitline for Childhood Cancer Survivors (XPD07-140).