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| Women: the life time
risk of ever getting lung cancer in
women is 5.72% so in a group of 1,000 women, there will be about 57 with lung cancer. About 19% of women smoke, so in this group of 1,000 women, there will be 190 smokers and 810 non-smokers About 79% of lung cancer in women is caused by smoking, so 79% of the 57 cancers ( or 45) will be found among the smokers and only 12 cases among the non-smokers. So the risk of getting lung cancer if a woman smoked would be approximately 45/190 or 24% and for non-smoking women 12/810 or 1.5% There is an online calculator that determines the 10 year of getting lung cancer for smokers or non-smokers here/ Also read the whole section on smoking here. |
