What Are The Chances Of Getting Lung Cancer From Smoking?

September 27, 2009 | By the doc In Cancer |

Are the chances higher if you have asma?
P.S. I dont smoke, i’m just really curious.

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5 Comments so far

  1. David on September 27th, 2009

    I just looked up this information for a presentation to the classes I teach.
    Male smokers – lifetime risk of lung cancer is 1 in 6
    Female smokers – the risk is 1 in 9
    Either sex Non-smokers – only 1 in 77 chance of lung cancer
    Cigarette smoke contains over 60 known carcinogens.
    The risk increases with amount of exposure – number of cigarettes per day and years of smoking [“pack years”]
    There is NO reason that asthma should make someone more likely to develop lung cancer – - at least I’ve seen no such data in the 20 years that I was a cancer specialist MD.
    Men who smoke are about 23 times more
    likely to develop cancer than non-smokers.
    Women who smoke – - 13 times more likely.
    Smoking causes about 90% of lung cancer
    deaths in men and almost 80% in women.
    In 2003, an estimated 171,900 new cases of lung cancer occurred and approximately 157,200 people died from lung cancer.
    Smoking causes cancers of the oral cavity, pharynx, larynx, esophagus, and bladder – as well as causing Lung Cancer

  2. Spreedog on September 27th, 2009

    It increases the chance by about 10-20 times of normal people. Asthma does not increase the risk of lung cancer.

  3. tan73h on September 27th, 2009

    sadly yes the chances are a higher if you have asma but the best way to develop it is smoking

  4. Toxic on September 27th, 2009

    well smoking is the number one way to get lung cancer . (:

  5. Mal on September 27th, 2009

    really high! almost everyone does!!
    when u got asthma its WAYYYYYYYYYYY higher!!

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