Women more vulnerable than men appears to be carcinogenic effects of smoking information folder "means the new categories of results of measurements shall be expressed in the European Conference this week, breasts onkologian (EMCTO), Lugano, Switzerland.The Swiss researchers studied patients with lung cancer 683 to Cancer centre, St Gallen between 2000 and 2005 and found women tended is younger, when they developed cancer, despite having smoked, on average, considerably less than men.
Dr. Martin Frueh and his colleagues "our findings suggest that women may have increased the incentive for the tobacco carcinogens" report.
Dr. Enriqueta Felip-Val d ' Hebron University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain and the Conference co-chair, notes that the results support the growing awareness that smoking causes higher risks for women than men.
Early lung cancer "in 1900, women were rare, but since the 1960s, it has gradually reached epidemic proportions, becoming the leading cause of cancer deaths among women in the United States," Dr. Felip said.
"Lung cancer is not just a human illnesses, but women are generally much more aware of other cancers, breast cancer, such as," he said. "Several case studies to show the control suggests that women are more vulnerable to tobacco carcinogens than men ".
Positive side of the presents another investigation at the Conference suggests that women tend to do better than men after surgery to remove the lung tumours.
Irish researchers led by Dr. Bassel Al Alao studied 640 patients that is not a small cell lung cancer was removed surgically, for a period of 10 years, 239, which were women.
They found that median survival after surgery 2.1 years 4,7 years for men and women.
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