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The Smoking Facts About Bronchogenic Carcinoma in Women

women and lung cancer

The facts about women and lung cancer rates are not good.

A few decades ago more and more women decided to be like their fathers, brothers and husbands and take up cigarette smoking. Lung cancer rates in women have been rising steadily since then.

The smoking facts about lung cancer in women shows that they develop cancer at lower levels of exposure.

There is also evidence to suggest women are more likely to have small cell carcinoma which is the more aggressive type of bronchogenic carcinoma.




women and lung cancer

Smoking Facts and Female Smokers

  • According to the WHO FACT Sheet on Women and Tobacco (May 2010), women comprise 20% of the world's 1 billion smokers.

  • Cigarette manufacturers market aggressively to women with messages of youth and liberation "You've come a long way baby".

  • Teenage girls make up the majority of new smokers in developed countries. Many of them will receive a diagnosis of bronchogenic carcinoma when they are older adults.

Because of the decision to start smoking made by many young women, lung cancer rates and cancer mortality statistics in the female population have undergone a change, especially in countries where women are assured equal status within the society.

Women and Lung Cancer Statistics
in
4 Developed Countries

1- Canada -
Lung Cancer and Smoking Facts

Smoking Prevalence in Women 8

Women and Lung Cancer Mortality

Lung Cancer Rates
Incidence and Prevalence

(1999)
23%

(2003)
18%

(2009)
16%

Since 1993 lung cancer has caused more deaths in women than breast cancer.

In 2004 lung cancer accounted for more than 13% of all new cancer cases in women.

The number of new cases of lung cancer being diagnosed in women increased rapidly from 1972 to 1993. It is now approaching a plateau after continuously increasing for several decades.

2 - Australia -
Lung Cancer and Smoking Facts

Smoking Prevalence in Women6

Women and Lung Cancer Mortality

Lung Cancer Rates
Incidence and Prevalence

(1995)
22%

(2004)
20% overall

but 49% of Indigenous women reported being current daily smokers.

In 2005 lung cancer surpassed breast cancer as the biggest cancer killer for women.

In 2007 lung cancer accounted for:

  • 4.3% of all female deaths
  • 16.8% of all cancer deaths

In 2006 7.9% of all cancers in women were located in the lungs or trachea.

In 2007, 3533 women received a diagnosis of bronchogenic carcinoma.

3- United States of America -
Lung Cancer and Smoking Facts

Smoking Prevalence in Women 7

Women and Lung Cancer Mortality

Lung Cancer Rates
Incidence and Prevalence

From 1930 to 1998 the smoking prevalence among women went from under 5% to over 30%

Since at least the year 2000 bronchogenic carcinoma has been the leading cause of cancer deaths among women.

It is estimated that nearly four out of every five lung cancer deaths in women are the direct result of the harmful effects of smoking.

Bronchogenic carcinoma is the second most common type of cancer among women in most regions.

Out of every 100,000 women in the US about 55 received a diagnosis of Bronchogenic Carcinoma in 2006

4 - United Kingdom -
Lung Cancer and Smoking Facts

Smoking Prevalence in Women9

Women and Lung Cancer Mortality

Lung Cancer Rates
Incidence and Prevalence

In 1974 female smokers made up 40% of the population of women in the UK.

1980
36%

2005
23%

2008
20%

The third most common type of cancer in women after breast cancer and bowel cancer.

From 1975 to 2007 the number of cases of lung cancer among women increased by 65%.5

In 2007 out of every 100,000 women in Great Britain, 38 women received a diagnosis of bronchogenic carcinoma.

Data sources for Information on Women and Lung Cancer

  1. Public Health Agency of Canada

  2. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) 2010.ACIM (Australian Cancer Incidence and Mortality Books)AIHW: Canberra

  3. CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Program for Cancer Registries

  4. Cancer Research UK Cancer Stats

  5. Cancer Research UK

  6. Australian Bureau of Statistics

  7. CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

  8. Canadian Tobacco Use Monitoring Survey

  9. Statistic on Smoking: England, 2011 (National Statistics)

    10.

No matter how you look at it, the smoking facts about women and lung cancer rates are not good.

As long as women continue to make the decision to start smoking, lung cancer will be the result for many of them.

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