Genetic Risk Can Be Decreased: Quitting Smoking Decreases and Delays Lung Cancer for Smokers With High and Low CHRNA5 Risk Genotypes — A Meta-Analysis
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CHRNA5 rs16969968 confers risk for earlier lung cancer diagnosis, but quitting produces benefit regardless of genotype.

Smokers can cut their risk of lung cancer in half and delay its onset by 7 years among those diagnosed.

Precision prevention allows clinicians to provide personalized health benefits of smoking cessation.

This is a report on whether smoking cessation confers the same benefits in terms of lung cancer risk reduction for those who possess CHRNA5 risk variants versus those who do not. We determined that quitting smoking is highly beneficial in reducing lung cancer risk levels for smokers regardless of their CHRNA5 rs16969968 genetic risk status. Although CHRNA5 rs16969968 increases risk for earlier lung cancer by 4 years, quitting produces essentially the same benefit for smokers with either high or low genetic risks. Smokers can cut their risk of lung cancer in half and delay its onset by 7 years among those diagnosed. These results are important for smokers to prevent cancer. On average, smokers at all genetic risk levels can largely eliminate their elevated risk for lung cancer by quitting smoking.

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