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# Tobacco Users More Likely to Die from Gastric Cancer
- URL: https://www.foodconsumer.org/tobacco_usrs_gastric_cancer_death_0802120929/
- Published: 2012-08-02T22:28:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-22T16:23:27.000Z
- Description: Among 699 patients who had curative surgery for gastric cancer at Memorial Sloan-Kettering, those who had ever smoked more than 100 cigarettes were about 1.45 times as likely as non-users to die of the disease. Both heavy and light use tracked with worse survival.
- Author: Food Consumer
- Tags: Lifestyle, Health News, #vivvo-import

By David Liu. PHD

Thursday Aug 2, 2012 ([foodconsumer.org](http://www.foodconsumer.org/)) -- Tobacco use has been linked to increased risk for developing gastric cancer, which is highly lethal. A study in Annals of Surgical Oncology suggests that tobacco use may also increase risk of death from the disease after surgery.

The study led by E. C. Smith of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and colleagues found men and women who had ever used 100 cigarettes in their lifetime were 1.45 times as likely as non tobacco users to die from gastric cancer after curative surgical resection.

A total of 699 patients aged 25 to 96 years who had undergone curative resection for gastric cancer between 1995 and 2009 and who had not received pre-or postoperative chemo or radiotherapy. A history of tobacco use was defined as greater than 100 cigarettes' lifetime use. All patients were registered in the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Gastric Cancer prospective surgical database. 410 patients were current or previous tobacco users.

Multivariate analysis including variables tumor stage, age, performance status, diabetes mellitus, gender, and tumor location found those who ever used more than 100 cigarettes were about 1.45 times as likely as non-tobacco users to die from gastric cancer.

Of 516 patients for whom tobacco pack-year usage was available, both heavy tobacco use (greater than 20 pack-years) and light use (less than 20 pack-years) were associated with gastric cancer disease specific survival, five year disease free survival and overall survival.