Women are more vulnerable than men to the lung cancer
Women are more vulnerable than men to the lung cancer Even fewer, smokers are more likely to develop the disease than their male counterparts. Men and women are not equal to lung cancer. This is in any case what suggests a study published at the end of May in the New England Journal of Medicine. According to US researchers, the number of new cases of lung cancer has declined among men and women aged 30 to 54 in the last 20 years. But this decline, which is undeniably linked to a decrease in smoking, has been much steeper for men. "Women will inhale more toxins than men to get the level of nicotine they need" As a result, among Caucasian and Hispanic women born in the mid-1960s, the incidence of lung cancer now exceeds that of men. However, while the proportion of female smokers has increased significantly in the population, it has never exceeded that of smokers. "In addition, the average number of cigarettes smoked per day continues to be lower among wom...
