Lung Cancer Prevention Smokers are 15 to 80 times more likely to develop lung cancer than nonsmokers

2019-12-05 16:31:08

Smoking is the most common way to prevent lung cancer because it occurs in smokers.

Therefore, for high-risk groups such as smokers over 55 years old and smokers over 30 years of age, it is advisable to perform low dose chest CT every year to detect lung cancer early.

The most important cause of lung cancer is smoking.

There are about 7,000 harmful substances found in tobacco, of which more than 60 are known as carcinogens.

Smokers are 15 to 80 times more likely to develop lung cancer than nonsmokers.

Even in nonsmokers, frequent exposure to secondhand smoke increases the risk of lung cancer.

Continuous exposure to asbestos-related building materials is known to lead to lung cancer after incubation.

In addition, it may be affected by fine dust such as radioactive materials, diesel combustion gas, and air pollution dust, and even if there is a family history, the risk of development increases.

Survival rates can be found in the data released in 2018 by the Korea Central Cancer Registry.

According to the data, the 5-year relative survival rate of lung cancer between 2012 and 2016 is 28.2% (male 23.7%, female 38.6%).