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Just ASK Initiative Increases Assessments of Patients’ Smoking Status

January 23, 2025

Programs participating in the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Just ASK project—the largest quality improvement initiative to focus on the critically important issue of smoking among cancer patients—dramatically increased rates of assessing and documenting patients’ smoking status at CoC-accredited cancer centers. Results of the quality improvement project and clinical study were reported in theJournal of Clinical Oncology.

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