Lung Cancer awareness!

Journeyman · Aug 9, 2005

Just saw a horrifying statistic on this deadly disease....

176,000 people per year diagnosed with Lung Cancer.

165,000 people per year die of Lung Cancer.

not good odds...

GreenDoberman · Aug 10, 2005

Journey,

How many of those are smoking related or can be determined to be, I wonder?

Journeyman · Aug 10, 2005

GreenDoberman said:
Journey,

How many of those are smoking related or can be determined to be, I wonder?

85 to 90% of all cases are due to smoking or chewing tobacco.

Journeyman · Aug 11, 2005

surprising to me, only 22% of adults smoke...I would have thought itwas closer to half!

1 in 5 not bad.

Journeyman · Aug 11, 2005

Only 5% survive lung cancer for a lengthy time period, the more I read the more depressing this is...smoking gotta be one of the single dumbest things anyone can do to themself.

also, a chest XRay cannot detect lung cancer, only a CT scan can detect .

hopefully someone will quit reading this.