Surge in 'non-smoking' lung cancer in China quoting : Straits Times

More than 730,000 of them had lung cancer, accounting for nearly 36 per cent of the world's total. There are two major types of lung cancer - lung adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma. The incidence of lung cancer has surged in recent decades. For instance, in the 1960s, the incidence of lung cancer in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, stood at seven per 100,000 people. Industrialised countries saw a rise in the proportion of adenocarcinoma before China, according to Mr Xue, who said lung adenocarcinoma is now the most common type of lung cancer.



Surge in 'non-smoking' lung cancer in China
Air pollution is being blamed for soaring numbers of non-smokers who are developing lung cancer. Doctors at leading cancer centres in London warned that high levels of pollution are causing a spike in cases of lung cancer. They said, if the trend continues, the number of lung cancer deaths among non-smokers will overtake those who smoke within a decade. According to The Times, there are more than 46,000 new cases of lung cancer every year in the UK. Stephen Spiro, a former head of respiratory medicine at University College Hospital said: "There is no good evidence that lung cancer is becoming commoner in never-smokers.

Pollution blamed for lung cancer in people who have never smoked

The number of lung cancer deaths among people who have never smoked will overtake deaths from smoking-related cancer within a decade TOBY MELVILLE/REUTERSLung cancer rates among non-smokers have doubled over the past decade amid concerns that high levels of air pollution lie behind the rise, a study shows. The number of lung cancer deaths among people who have never smoked will overtake deaths from smoking- related cancer within a decade if the trend continues, according to the UK's largest cancer surgery centre. Researchers worry that this shift would make the condition, which is the deadliest form of cancer, even harder to diagnose and treat in time. There are 46,400 new cases and 36,000 associated deaths in Britain each year, and only one in 20 patients survives for more than ten years. Lung cancer has overwhelmingly been linked to cigarettes, which caused about nine out of ten cases.…


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