What Percent of Lung Cancer Deaths is Attributed to Smoking?

Lung cancer risk related smoking approximately 90 percent today. Then what percent of lung cancer death is attributed to smoking? Based on the American Cancer Society’s estimates for lung cancer in the United States for 2015 are:

• About 115,610 in men and 105,590 in women have lung cancer cases.
• An estimated 86,380 in men and 71,660 among women deaths from lung cancer.

Therefore, the percentage of lung cancer death is about 27 percent both men and women, then 90 percent of the lung cancer related smoking. Until the middle of this decade, the number of deaths in the world due to lung cancer increased. According to data from the WHO in 2012, there were 8.2 million people worldwide die from cancer, about 1.59 million of them died of lung cancer, lung cancer is the first position the deaths.

Between 1999 and 2012 from 152,156 to 157,499 the number of deaths due to lung cancer has increased approximately 3.5 percent. The number of deaths among men has reached a plateau but the number is still rising among women. In 2012, there were 86,740 deaths due to lung cancer in men and 70,759 in women.

Lung cancer and smoking

Lung cancer occurs due to recurrent irritation of carcinogens (cause cell malignancy) in the airways from the trachea to the lungs. This causes the function becomes uncontrolled cell growth / abnormal. In normal cells of the body have an automatic mechanism in cell regeneration, but in this disease, the mechanism was not running properly. Keep in mind that these cancer cells can spread to other organs (metastasis), so do not be surprised if the cancer patients at an advanced stage of cancer is found not only in one organ of the body.

The chance that a man will develop lung cancer in his lifetime is about 1 in 13; for a woman, the risk is about 1 in 16. These numbers include both smokers and non-smokers. For smokers the risk is much higher, while for non-smokers the risk is lower.

Remember cancer is one of the non-communicable diseases caused by growth of abnormal cells in the body. So unhealthy lifestyle like smoking is the main cause of lung cancer. Lung cancer death rates also will increase if every year if there are still many people who smoke today.

Article source: www.smokingcausescancer.com