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For smoking women is more lung cancer
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Women smoke affects lung cancer more often than smoke-male, but timely diagnosing the disease is far less ends for women fatal. These findings are American scientists, who published a report on its study in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
The study was attended by 7,498 women and 9,427 men, held examinations to detect lung cancer between 1993 and 2005. All participants in the study were smokers over the age of 40 years have not been cancer.
According to the researchers, lung cancer was detected in 2.1% of women and 1.2% of men. Thus, for women smokers inside the probability of lung cancer was higher than 90%. At the same time, women with lung cancer disease by 48% at end fatal than men with the same diagnosis.
The observed patterns remain unclarified. It is possible that the increased risk and the less severe the disease is a healthy lifestyle, hormonal patterns, or duration and style smoking, the authors note the editorial for publication.
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