Comments on: What Are The Chances Of Getting Lung Cancer From Smoking?

By: Mal

Mal — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 11:51:38 +0000

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

By: Toxic

Toxic — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 10:55:53 +0000

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

By: tan73h

tan73h — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 10:16:47 +0000

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

By: Spreedog

Spreedog — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 10:11:08 +0000

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

By: David

David — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 10:05:08 +0000

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