Women who smoke are more likely to get lung cancer

　　Some modern people under heavy pressure female will be like male Just like "vomiting smoke". As everyone knows, their bodies cannot treat cigarettes as coolly as men.

　　A Swiss study found that smoking affects women healthy It is more harmful and more likely to lead to lung cancer.

　　Great harm

　　Researchers from a Swiss family Hospital 683 lung cancer patients were selected, and their conditions were continuously observed and recorded from 2000 to 2005.

　　The study found that although female smokers generally smoke less than men, they are more likely to develop adenocarcinoma, a more common type of lung cancer, and the average age at cancer onset is younger than men.

　　Martin Frue of the Canton Hospital in St. Gallen, Switzerland, led the study. He said: “Research has found that carcinogens in tobacco are increasingly harmful to women. ”Women are less resistant to these chemical carcinogens than men.

　　The results of the study were announced on the 3rd at the European Interdisciplinary Symposium on Thoracic Oncology held in Lugano, Switzerland. Enriqueta Felipe, who chaired the meeting, said that people are increasingly aware that smoking is more harmful to women.

　　"At the beginning of the 20th century, lung cancer was rare in women," said Felipe. But since the 1960s, (lung cancer) has gradually become an epidemic and the leading cause of death among American women. cancer。”

　　Treat with caution

　　Henry Scowcroft, of Cancer Research UK, said: "People should be cautious about jumping to conclusions about differences in cancer risk between men and women. ”

　　Scowcroft said: "These scientists only studied lung cancer patients from one hospital and did not look at the biological differences between men and women. ”

　　A previous study in the United States showed that women are much more likely to develop lung cancer than men. A gastrin-releasing peptide receptor gene becomes active when stimulated by nicotine, increasing the risk of lung cancer in carriers. More women than men carry this gene, and the gene is more active in women than in men.

　　Although women are more likely to develop lung cancer, their ability to fight cancer is better than that of men. An Irish study found that female lung cancer patients survived longer on average than men after surgery to remove their tumors.

　　The researchers selected 640 lung cancer patients to participate in the study, including 239 women, and then spent 10 years following their postoperative disease development.

　　Data show that after tumor removal, men can live an average of 2.1 years and women can live 4.7 years.