At what age do most women die from lung cancer.?!
Question: I HAVE SMOKED FOR TWENTY YEARS AND I AM 44YRS OLD. MY RELATIVES ALL DIED AROUND THE AGE OF 67 YEARS. DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY INPUT?
Answers: I HAVE SMOKED FOR TWENTY YEARS AND I AM 44YRS OLD. MY RELATIVES ALL DIED AROUND THE AGE OF 67 YEARS. DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY INPUT?
I saw several hundred patients, male and female, die from lung cancer in the 20 years I spent as a doctor specializing in adult cancer medicine (medical oncology). Most women and men who died from lung cancer were in their 60s and 70s. There were some in their fifties and some in their 80s. Only a few were less than 50, but that does occur. It's just less common than death at a later age.
The American Cancer society data for women indicates a life time risk of 1 chance in 16 of developing lung cancer for all women. But only 20% of women still smoke in the United States, and by far the majority (over 85-90%) of patients with lung cancer have been smokers. So the chances of a women who smokes getting lung cancer at some point is greater than 1 in 16.
Not all smokers get lung cancer. But the risk of lung cancer is greater for smokers. The amount and the number of years of smoking are also significant factors.
Here's some useful info from the NCI :
Smoking and Cancer from the National Cancer Institute
* Cigarette smoking causes 87 percent of lung cancer deaths and is responsible for most cancers of the larynx, oral cavity and pharynx, esophagus, and bladder.
* Secondhand smoke is responsible for an estimated 3,000 lung cancer deaths among U.S. nonsmokers each year.
* Tobacco smoke contains thousands of chemical agents, including over 60 substances that are known to cause cancer.
* The risk of developing smoking-related cancers, as well as noncancerous diseases, increases with total lifetime exposure to cigarette smoke.
* Smoking cessation has major and immediate health benefits, including decreasing the risk of lung and other cancers, heart attack, stroke, and chronic lung disease.
My dad quit smoking at 40 and developed lung cancer at 82 (and beat it with a hard fight - he is still alive and pretty healthy 2 years later).
Stop now and you have a chance of a longer lifespan. People are living longer and with a healthy lifestyle you could too.
By the way, his relatives who kept smoking all died much younger - from heart disease.
I don't think there is a cut and dried answer to your question. My dad's companion for 10 years survived losing a lung in 1975 at 41. But she lived until last year and died at 74 with metastatic cancer of the other lung.
How come you are assuming you must live/die the same as your family? Do you drive the same car? Do you have the same doctor? Do you smoke? oh, yeah, I guess you do. Hmmm. I wonder what you could do to increase your chance of living to see 68??? Hmmmm....