Figure 1From: High prevalence of lung cancer in a surgical cohort of lung cancer patients a decade after smoking cessation Years of Smoking Cessation to Lung Cancer Diagnosis versus Percent of Former Smokers, n = 411. Sixty percent of patients in a surgical lung cancer cohort with a smoking history had stopped smoking 11-60 years (mean 18.1 ± 15.7, median 16, IQR 3 to 30) before lung cancer diagnosis.Back to article page