Cigarette: is it a matter of patience?

1992/05/01 Elhuyar Zientzia Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria

• Osasuna

It constantly reminds us that the relationship between smoking and cancer is close.

It seems that the incidence of cancer is closely related to the daily consumption of cigarettes, the start age of combustion, and the amount of smoke that is breathed.

Burning twenty or more cigars means that the risk of developing lung cancer increases twenty or more times, a trend that does not go down until three years after quitting.

Lung cancer mortality among smokers (one hundred thousand people a year) is 78.6, while among non-smokers is 3.4.

Autopsies made in the bodies of people who have died from cancer and other causes, indicate that, while non-smoking metaplasia of the bronchial tree is 3.8, among smokers is 99.5%.

The prognosis for cancer is extremely serious.

Survival, which is taken into account up to five years, is 5% and mortality is 95%.

When diagnosed, 80% of the operas are already inoperable and only 20% are operable, but many of these cancers will not be removable and only 5% will live five years.