Traditionally, lung cancer seems to be the man of the patent, male lung cancer patients have been up to all men in the number of cancer patients, the highest in the first place. Currently, however, due to smoking, air pollution, cooking fumes and other reasons, lung cancer has become the leading cause of cancer deaths in women. In the previous 40 years, breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in women.
Data from the National Statistics Office showed the tumor, 2000, Chinese men lung cancer incidence was 43.0 persons / 100,000 females was 19.1 persons / 100000; By the 2005 men was estimated at 49.0 persons / 100,000 women, compared with 22.9 person / 100000. From 2000 to 2005, male lung cancer increased from 260 000 330 000, an increase of 26.9% from 120,000 women to 170,000, an increase of 38.4%. Significantly increase women than men.
"Passive smoking" make women passive victims
Data shows, now in lung cancer patients, the number of patients with non-smoking women is gradually increasing. How is this going?
Survey showed that women with these diseases incentives from passive smoking, which is the "passive smoking." Suffered smoke inhalation hazards of passive smoking is even higher than smoking, some women who lived with smokers, the risk of lung cancer can be six times more than normal. So women to prevent lung cancer, in addition to their own do not smoke, but also far from passive smoking poison.
As the human respiratory system directly connected with the outside world, it is closely related to the incidence of good or bad quality of the surrounding environment female lung cancer. According to the second annual North-South Lung Cancer Forum of China famous cancer specialist, vice chairman of China Cancer Research Foundation Sun Yan Yuanshi introduction, the occurrence of lung cancer in women and the three major factors, namely air pollution, the second is the proliferation of tobacco ( Smoking and passive smoking), three small environmental pollution (such as dust, smoke, etc.).
90% of lung cancer associated with smoking
Because lung cancer is very common, is a common disease is the leading cause of cancer death, three to four cancer deaths among patients with lung cancer have one, the lack of early diagnosis of lung cancer measures, the vast majority of terminally ill patients within a year should be Death.
In fact the vast majority of lung cancer is preventable and can be brought under control, the cause of lung cancer among the 90 percent of its incidence of lung cancer related to smoking, with good linear correlation between smoking sooner, the greater the amount of smoking risks the more, if a patient's lifetime to the old smoking lung cancer is 15% of the time, there were six people each one will get lung cancer, on this point, the relationship between smoking and lung cancer is fairly close, but there are friends would say I have never smoked, but also had lung cancer.
In addition to active smoking and lung cancer, but also on the existence of a passive smoking, which is commonly referred to as second-hand smoke may also be a patient's family, father, mother, husband, office colleagues have been smoking, so the patient's lung cancer is second-hand smoke the risk is significantly increased, and foreign study found that if the spouse is a smoker, and spouses living longer, the greater the likelihood of lung cancer, in terms of control from the current best strategy to prevent lung cancer is smoking, especially in public places is a viable strategy.
Prevention is still the cessation of the
Although non-smokers also suffer from lung cancer, but smokers develop lung cancer, but the number and severity is much higher than non-smokers. Up to 90% of male lung cancer patients and 79% of women with lung cancer and smoking-related, whether passive or active smoking.
Women quit smoking remains the most fundamental measure is the most controllable good law. Studies have found that the risk of lung cancer in women who smoke are five times those who did not smoke. Women quit sooner the better, because studies show that only quit the incidence of lung cancer more than five years before people fall to near normal and non-smoking hobby.
Kitchen smoke "smoked" out lung cancer
Epidemiology of lung cancer from Shanghai, a display of up to five years, while long-term exposure of young women in the kitchen cooking temperature fumes, will make it the risk of lung cancer increased by 2 to 3 times. Studies have shown that, due to the high temperatures when the kitchen cooking fumes produce toxic fumes, so the deterioration of the local environment, long-term toxic fumes irritate the eye and throat, respiratory system tissue damage, if not protected, it is easy to make a high incidence of lung cancer.
Women should change cooking habits, do not burn too hot pan when cooking; must install a kitchen range hoods; during cooking, always open the hood; If no range hood in the kitchen is also necessary to open window ventilation, so smoke cleared quickly.
Do not ignore early symptoms
Symptoms of lung cancer are coughing, difficulty breathing, chest pain, loss of appetite and hemoptysis, its symptoms are not specific. Therefore, the early symptoms of lung cancer patients are often overlooked, the patient had been diagnosed once in the middle and late, plus easy transfer of lung cancer, recur characteristics, the overall survival rate of patients with lung cancer is not high.
Therefore, women with lung cancer prevention and secure more scientific approach is often the body regularly to the hospital for health check in order to facilitate early detection and early treatment. Six months to a year to do chest once, then even found a small lung cancer, early treatment surgery, the success rate is very high, not only can be cured completely, and not spend much money. Famous artists Lirong is because there is no early detection, an advanced lung cancer is found, the final transfer of bone cancer incurable and died.