Increased Lung Cancer Rates in Women

The National Cancer Institute relates that the lung cancer rate in men has fallen from 9% to 7.2% in the period from 1975 to 2007.  However, the rate for women has more than doubled, from 2.4% to 5.5%, during the same period.

This trend in non-smoking women appears to be associated with these risk factors:

• Second hand smoke
• Radon Gas from soil and building materials
• Hazardous environmental chemicals (air pollution, diesel exhaust, paint)
• Rubber manufacturing
• History of tuberculosis
• Cooking oil fumes

Current research in lung cancer association with estrogen levels, postmenopausal metabolism, diabetes, and gene mutations are ongoing.

Source:  American Cancer Society

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