Blog 3, Europe Women and Lung Cancer

It is said that with the next decade lung cancer is going to be the main cause of cancer deaths in European women.  This prediction comes from a recent study in the journal Annals of Oncology the article stated.  The article I read was called “Lung Cancer to Overtake Breast Cancer Among Women in Europe.”  According to the article, lung cancer has become the main cause of death in women in the UK and Poland, overriding breast cancer.  Investigators from the King’s College London stated that over the next thirty years lung cancer among females will rise thirty times faster than males.  Across the 27 countries in the European Union, researchers estimate there will be close to 1.3 million people who will die from cancer this year alone.  Since 2009, the lung cancer mortality rates are steady increasing it was said to have increase 7 percent.  As we know, smoking is thought to be the main cause of lung cancer, but the smoking among the young females has decreased over recent years.  Lung cancer however is now already the number one killer among men.  The article also stated that pancreatic cancer is expected to see an overall increase in the rate of mortality across all genders- this year.

When reading this article, I seemed to try to relate this to the United States.   Lung cancer is already the leading cause of death among white, black, Asian/Pacific Islander, and American Indian/Alaska Native Women according to the centers of disease control and prevention.  To both, I was surprised because you would think it would be breast cancer.  I recollected myself and realized that there has been an increase in female smoking, which in my opinion isn’t a good look. I still can’t seem to understand why so many people smoke, knowing the bad effects of it.  The rates in Europe were so high, 82,640 women that would die from lung cancer alone this year.  This also shows that there should be more treatments, at a reasonable, not to say price, but affordable to women and men whom get cancer.  This should be something we prepare for, although we cannot prevent it.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/256405.php

Deanna Thompson

2/14/2013   5:05pm