Study: Non-Smoking Women At Greater Risk For Lung Cancer Than Men

[The Straight Story]

Study: Non-Smoking Women At Greater Risk For Lung Cancer Than Men

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A new study shows that cutting the risk for lung cancer is not as simple as not smoking.

The findings showed that even women who do not smoke are much more likely to get lung cancer than non-smoking men, 10TV's Andrea Cambern reported on Monday.

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Three years ago doctors found a spot on her lungs when she had a routine X-ray. Then her lesion changed, so doctors operated and removed it.

Winbigler was surprised to learn it was lung cancer, Cambern reported.

"I didn't smoke. Why me?" Winbigler said. "Because you link lung cancer with smoking, and so I was very surprised."

http://www.10tv.com/live/content/femalefocus/stories/2010/11/22/story-columbus-lung-cancer-women-study.html?sid=102

[MannyGoldstein]

1. Weird fact: the Japanese have about the lowest lung cancer rate

and about the highest smoking rate.

Go figure.

(No, I'm not suggesting that smoking ain't awful for you.)

[The Straight Story]

2. It's like terrorism - we need a common enemy to get people behind bans/TSA/etc

Sell fear, promise people 'safety' if they will just forgo some freedoms to associate, etc.

Scare people enough and they will give up anything to feel safe.

[BlueIris]

3. So, YAY FOR SMOKING!! Not.

It's not like anyone ever gets any other diseases from smoking, or like the health risks of passive smoke to others around smokers aren't significant.

:mad:

[Greyhound]

4. Because it's all Bullshit. Any (honest) Oncologist will tell you, we don't know what causes cancer.

We can make good guesses and identify apparent correlations but the actual cause or causes continue to elude us.

There are probably genetic components, smoking certainly doesn't help but only increases the likelihood by about 1/3, there are innumerable environmental factors, and so on...

Personally, considering how frequently we see anomalies such as the Japanese, and after much personal experience, I lean toward stress, quality of food, and living in a toxic environment as the major culprits (Americans are working themselves to death for nothing other than to make other people rich). But here we are, yet again, being told by various "experts" with their own agenda that we should do this, stop that, and buy this product to reduce our chances of getting what is most likely inevitable or impossible depending on the individual.

It's as if they believe that saying "we just don't know" would eliminate their so-called authority.

Come to think of it, it would, wouldn't it?

[KT2000]

5. Women do housework and laundry

usually anyway. There is a chemical that is formed when formaldehyde and chlorine mixes in the air - BCME. It causes lung cancer - the kind women usually develop - small cell. Homes are filled with formaldehyde as are laundry products and clothing. Add a little chlorine and it is possible for the chemical to form in the air space. It comes and goes.
It has one of the shortest latency periods too.
The chemicals women are exposed to in the course of cleaning in the home is never considered but should be, just like any other job that is covered by OSHA.