Smoking habits are not the monopoly of men. Now more and more women are smoking. Though their bodies are not as strong as men in dealing with toxic smoke.
One study showed that women smokers are more susceptible to cancer than men. Age of women affected by lung cancer due to smoking younger than the opposite sex. Even though fewer women smoke.
The study also proves that women are more vulnerable to chemicals trigger cancer, or carcinogen, is found in cigarettes.
The study was based on data of 683 cancer patients treated at a clinic in Switzerland between 2000 and 2005. From there it was found that women smokers have a tendency statistical adencocarcinoma affected, the general form of lung cancer. Age they were younger when diagnosed with cancer.
"Our findings indicate that women who smoke are much more susceptible to carcinogens than tobacco," said Dr Martin Frueh, chairman of the research team from Canton St. Gallen, Switzerland.
The results were presented at the Multidisciplinary Cancer Conference of the European Thorax held in Lugano, Switzerland, last weekend.
"In the early 1900s, lung cancer rarely occurs in women. But since the 1960s is the number of female lung cancer rose rapidly. Even in the United States this cancer has become one killer among women, "beber conference committee chairman Dr. Enriqueta Felip.
"We have not only lung cancer, a disease of men. But women are also vulnerable to other cancers such as breast cancer, "added Felip.
The latest findings confirm several previous studies that revealed that women's higher risk of getting cancer than men. Even the U.S. researchers found that such women have a gene that triggers the growth of lung cancer.
But Henry Scowcroft of Cancer Research UK Board asked to be careful that respond to the findings. "The researchers looked only at patients who are exposed to one type of cancer and did not see the biological differences in lung cancer in women and men," Scowcroft said. dm / kis