Women More Vulnerable to Smoking-Induced Cancers
May 6, 2009 by admin
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Women are more susceptible to the harmful substances in tobacco, and develop lung cancer more rapidly than men. Even if they smoke less, new research shows.
It is dangerous to smoke, but there is strong evidence that smoking harms women more than men. International researchers, who studied nearly 700 lung cancer patients, has found that women are generally younger than men when they develop the dreaded disease, even though they smoke far less than men.
“Our findings suggest that women have an increased susceptibility to tobacco carcinogens,” says dr. with. Martin Frueh from St. Gallen Canton Hospital in Switzerland to the English telegraph.uk.
Research results were presented this weekend at the first European multidisciplinary cancer conference in Lugano, Switzerland.
Also Consultant Enriqueta Felipe from Val D’Hebron University Hospital in Barcelona, Spain pointed out at the conference, that doctors have become increasingly aware that smoking is most dangerous for women.
100 years ago lung cancer was rare in women, but since women really started smoking in the 1960s and 1970s, the development has surged. Lung cancer usually develops over 20-30 years and therefore we today really see the results of women’s increasing tobacco consumption.
Women survive longer
Doctors are talking about almost epidemic proportions in the development of lung cancer among women. Today, lung cancer is the type of cancer that requires most women’s lives in the U.S., Enriqueta Felipe points out.
“Lung cancer is far from a man’s disease, but women seem to be much more aware of other cancers such as breast cancer,” she says.
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Although women develop lung cancer earlier than men, a second research study which was also presented at the cancer conference suggests, however, that women live longer after they have had a tumor in the lung removed.
Irish researchers followed some 600 patients over a ten-year period – just under half were women – who had been operated on for lung cancer.
Results showed that while men on average survived 2.1 years after surgery, the women survived an average of 4.7 years after lung cancer surgery.
Approximately nine of ten lung cancer cases are caused by tobacco smoke, according to cancer research.
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