Increasingly non -smokers have lung cancer. Number of women is “scary”

More women will die of lung cancer than breast, ovary and cervix together, says an oncologist. One in five of these women will be someone who has never touched a lifelong cigarette.

The number of people under 50 to be diagnosed with cancer is increasing worldwide.

This tendency is especially evident in lung cancer, one of the most lethal forms of cancer, than to an alarming rhythm among people who do not smoke.

According to a recent report of, almost a quarter of patients with lung cancer in Canada smoke.

This number has been rising for almost a decade and could be even higher, since the lung cancer tracks usually concentrate on smokers, leaving the non -smokers out of the radar early detection.

“Receiving a diagnosis of cancer was a great shock. And then, receiving a diagnosis of lung cancer was Even more disconcerting to me“, it says Katie Hulan37 -year -old programmer, to the Canadian news agency. Although it does not smoke, it was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer at the end of 2020.

Katie’s story is emblematic of another worrying trend: the fact that non -smoking women They are developing lung cancer than men, and investigators still don’t know why.

“More women of lung cancer will die than the breast, the ovary and the cervix together, ”he says Rosalyn Juergensmedical oncologist at McMaster University, Canada. “One in five of these women will be someone who has never touched a lifelong cigarette.”

No Canada, a exposure to radioan invisible gas that emanates from the soil is the main cause of lung cancer among non -smokers. Exposure to Radão is expected Increase dramatically in the coming yearsas the northern permafrost melts due to the continuous increase in global temperatures, releasing radioactive gas to the atmosphere.

In the rest of the world, the particles resulting from air pollution They are increasingly associated with the growing number of cases of lung cancer among people who do not smoke.

According to a published in February in The Lancet Respiratory Medicinethe largest number of adenocarcinomas related to air pollution was found in eastern Asia, with particular incidence in China.