News on Lung Cancer Statistics
I was reading a news article the other day on cancer statistics and came across some horrible news. After looking over some information I read that lung cancer is the second most common cancer in men after prostate cancer. Also, lung cancer accounts for about 15% of all new cancers and during 2008, it was projected that there would be about 215,020 new cases of lung cancer (114,690 among men and 100,330 among women).
Not only is this horrible news because it’s a horrible disease, and it appears that lung cancer treatment is not working as the CDC reports an increase in people diagnosed but, this news is extremely bad for my brothers and me. The reason being is that my father passed away earlier this year from prostate cancer and my uncle just had his prostate removed because he was diagnosed with the disease. Not only are my chances of getting prostate cancer like over 60% now but I’ve smoked in the the past, so have my brothers (some still do) and now our chances of lung cancer has increased. DAMN IT!
This was news to me that I thought I should share as it looks like if you are unfortunately at risk of some type of cancer you could be at higher risk of others now also.
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September 11th, 2009 at 9:45 am
You may not like what I have to say. Many years ago the cancer society,lung society & ama were under fire because they had taken millions of $ in contributions but hadnt come up with a cause let alone a cure for any type of cancer. 3 months later I personally watched doctors in the VA hospital badgering patients as to smoking. If they had ever even had a whiff of cig smoke they were listed as cancer due to smoking.
What do these organizations have in common? The government. When I questioned one of the doctors as to why this was going on he told me they were being paid for each person they connected cigs and cancer.
I told him eventually people would get wise. He said by then it wouldnt make any difference. Sure enough…People now are beginning to ask why when smoking is down, lung cancer is up.
I have not been able to find any lung cancer statistics for native americans. The biggest group of smokers. I have a wide group of associates amongst my people. In all my years I have seldom heard of lung cancer. Could that be why statistics dont include us?