Women Are More Likely to Get Lung Cancer if Smoking

Due to high work pressure in modern society, more and more women start to smoke like men but have no idea that they do not have as strong resistance as men do. A research finding in Switzerland shows that smoking is more harmful to women and is prone to cause lung cancer.

The researchers chose 683 lung cancer sufferers at random from a hospital in Switzerland and had been observing and recording their conditions from the year of 2000 to the year of 2005. Finally they found that although women smoke less than men, their chance of contracting glandular lung cancer is higher than that of men. Besides, they come down with it at a younger age than men.

Martin, from St. Galen Canton Hospital in Switzerland who was in charge of this research, said: “The carcinogen in tobacco is doing increasing harm to the health of women and they have weaker resistance than men do.” The research finding was revealed on 3rd in a forum held in Lugarno, Switzerland and Enrique observed: “At the beginning of 20th Century, women rarely came down with lung cancer but since 1960s lung cancer has become an epidemic, which gradually becomes the leading cancer causing death among American women.”

According to a previous survey in America, women are much more likely to contract lung cancer than men. A kind of receptor gene releasing peptide will get activated by nicotine and this will increase the odds of getting lung cancer. In addition, more women than men have this kind of gene and the gene in women is more active than that in men.

Despite all that, women have stronger anti–cancer ability than men. In accordance with Irish research findings, the female sufferers who have the tumor respected would outlive the men who also have done that. The researchers chose 640 lung cancer sufferers, 239 of them being women and had spent 10 years in observing and recording their conditions. The statistics showed after the tumor was respected, the male subjects could live for another 2.1 years on average while the female subjects could averagely live for another 4.7 years.

In such forum, conventioneers also discussed cancer vaccines and targeted therapy, which the scientists think will bring gospel to the sufferers with benign cancer. The experiments showed that this kind of cancer vaccine worked for 30 per cent of clinical cases and effectively prevented recrudescence after operation. Since MAGE–3 has something to do with lung cancer, the cancer vaccine only works for the sufferers with MAGE–3 in the body.

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