Dr. Li-Shiun Chen featured in NCI’s Cancer Center Cessation Initiative video
How can we help cancer patients quit tobacco? This new video on the Cancer Center Cessation Initiative shows how NCI is working to research and apply the best answers to that question.Launched by NCI in 2017 as part of the Cancer MoonshotSM, the Cancer Center...Mobile app engages individuals with opioid use disorders
By Doug Brunk SAN DIEGO – Individuals with opioid use disorder generally embraced the idea of using a novel mobile application to learn about recovery options and medication-assisted treatment, according to results from a pilot study. “We found that, after...Smoking rates decline when mentally ill get help to quit
Such patients have higher than average smoking rates
Initiative to help cancer patients quit smoking
A new program funded by the National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Moonshot initiative will help patients at Siteman Cancer Center quit smoking. The national smoking rate is about 15 percent, but some 23 percent of Siteman patients smoke.