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To the Editor: In their study of cigarette smoking during radiation therapy in patients with head and neck cancer Browman et al. (Jan. 21 issue)¹ did not provide any details about their patients' smoking behavior during radiation therapy or their subsequent clinical course. The authors should have mentioned the number of cigarettes smoked during therapy instead of grouping all smokers together regardless of how many or how few cigarettes were smoked. A quantitative analysis might have provided some clues to the mechanism of the interaction between smoking and radiation therapy.

The authors also did not discuss the patients' smoking behavior . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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