{"id":2014,"date":"2009-07-17T14:45:16","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T13:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=2014"},"modified":"2009-07-17T14:45:16","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T13:45:16","slug":"more-female-nonsmokers-dying-of-lung-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2009\/07\/more-female-nonsmokers-dying-of-lung-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"More Female Nonsmokers Dying of Lung Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000099;\">The recent death of Dana Reeve has focused attention on a disturbing trend: young nonsmoking women dying of lung cancer.The Indy Channel reported March 7 that Indiana University School of Medicine oncologist Larry Einhorn said that such cases were almost nonexistent 30 years ago, but more common today. He said that secondhand smoke may be a factor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The same amount of tobacco exposure is more likely to lead to the changes that cause lung cancer in a woman than the male counterpart who gets the same secondhand exposure. Now, why that is, no one knows,&#8221; Einhorn said. &#8220;It&#8217;s sometimes too easy to say that this could be due to secondhand smoke. Probably some of the cases are due to secondhand smoke, but I would guess that the majority of them are unknown as to why these young healthy women like Dana Reeve develop this terrible disease and then succumb to lung cancer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>About 15,000 nonsmoking women die of lung cancer annually. Reeve, 44, the widow of actor Christopher Reeve, died earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>CBS-2 in Chicago noted that lung cancer among female smokers also is on the rise. &#8220;More women die annually from lung cancer than breast and ovarian cancer combined,\u201d said Dr. Jyoti Patel of Northwestern Memorial Hospital.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000099;\">Cancer experts say that genetics or hormones may also play a role in female susceptibility to the disease.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-style: italic; text-align: right;\">Source: Indy Channel March 7th 2006<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent death of Dana Reeve has focused attention on a disturbing trend: young nonsmoking women dying of lung cancer.The Indy Channel reported March 7 that Indiana University School of Medicine oncologist Larry Einhorn said that such cases were almost nonexistent 30 years ago, but more common today. He said that secondhand smoke may be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-nicotine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}