Patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who smoke currently or who smoked previously have worse health, quality of life (QoL), and financial burden, and more work- and activity-related impairments compared with never-smokers, according to research presented at the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) 18th Annual World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC) in Yokohama, Japan.1 For this cross-sectional study, researchers collected the data of 1030 adult patients with advanced NSCLC from medical chart reviews and various patient questionnaires. The financial effects of NSCLC, such as out-of-pocket costs and costs of productivity losses, were measured. Ou... [Read more]