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Prolonged Opioid Use Associated With Reduced Survival After Lung Cancer Resection

Friday, June 4, 2021

Submitted by

Christopher Anderson

Source

Source Name: The Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Source URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2020.09.015

Author(s)

William Z. Chancellor, MD, J. Hunter Mehaffey, MD, MSc, Raj P. Desai, MS, Jared Beller, MD, Rajesh Balkrishnan, PhD, Dustin M. Walters, MD, Linda W. Martin, MD, MPH

Chronic and prolonged opioid use were independently associated with reduced long-term, disease-specific survival after lung cancer resection. These findings provide epidemiologic support for a biological relationship between opioid use and lung cancer progression.