The rate of lung cancer deaths among British women is uppermost in Europe subsequent to several had taken up smoking, a way to lose weight. According to researchers it is three times higher than in Spain as the country with lowest rate of lung cancer deaths.
The outbreak is blamed by experts on the fact women took up smoking in greater number later in twentieth century in comparison to men, frequently in an effort to manage their weight. According to latest estimate about more than fifteen thousand women will die from lung cancer this year in UK alone.
Moreover, for hereditary causes women smokers are more threat of developing lung cancer earlier than men and after smoking small amount of cigarettes. The study observes cancer death rates in European Union between 1970 and 2007 and also envisages rates of deaths for the year 2011. The lung cancer death rates in British women, reached more than twenty per on lakh in 2007.
The lung cancer death rates in men in UK are envisaged to fall from thirty-three percent in 2007 to twenty-eight percent this year with death dropped down from twenty thousand to eighteen thousand. In general cancer death rates crossways Europe are envisaged to drop this year, according to the researchers, from the University of Milan and the University of Lausanne.
Women are quitting the habit of smoking at a slower rate in comparison to men. However, the rates of deaths are higher among men as the proportion of men who smoked used to be much higher the proportion of women. The health effects are still being felt.
The lung cancer death rates falling by seven percent in men and six percent in women compared with 2007, reported the figures published in the Annals of Oncology journal.