SPAIN . (AGENCIALAVOZ.ORG) 42% of women with lung cancer never smoked, although nearly half of them have been exposed indirectly to snuff as passive smoking. Here are some early data from the first English study is to determine the profile of the patient with lung cancer in our country.
Based on the job 'World 07', presented by the English Group for Lung Cancer (GECP) during the First National Congress of the English Society for Medical Oncology (SEOM), 58% of women developing a lung tumor is or has been smoking throughout their lives.
"Our data shows the profile of a woman with a mean age of 61, married with children and basic studies. A significant 42% of patients analyzed had never smoked, although nearly 40% of them declared passive smoking; while 58% do now or did in the past, "says Bartholomew MassutÃ, secretary of GECP.
The Group currently has completed 40% of the project, plans to raise the profiles of more than 2,000 English women with lung cancer through collaboration and coordination of 40 hospitals throughout Spain, with the objective to determine differences in genetic, hormonal and metabolic this tumor in women.
After analyzing the first 800 cases included in the database shows that have analyzed women, mostly (70.4%), a type of lung cancer called "adenocarcinoma".
analysis of the profiles database is also clear that the current state smokers consume about 72 packages of snuff a year. In addition, it is found that 45.5% have a family history of cancer (29.7% in lung cancer) and 13.8% had previously suffered another tumor (33% breast).
