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A new survey finds that we as American women are greatly uninformed about the threats posed by lung cancer and how it can affect them.
According to the National Lung Cancer Partnership, lung cancer affects more than 80,000 American women annually, with over 70,000 cases proving to be fatal. Thirty thousand more women die annually from lung cancer than from breast cancer, they noted.
Vital findings include:
*Only 41 percent of women know that lung cancer is the leading cancer killer in the United States.
*Only 8 percent of women understand that exposure to radon gas is the second leading cause of lung cancer. Instead, 60 percent of women share the mistaken belief that exposure to secondhand smoke is the number two cause.
*Only 36 percent of women are aware that lung cancer kills more women than breast cancer.
*Only 29 percent know that lung cancer kills more women than breast, ovarian and uterine cancers combined.
*Only 41 percent of women know that one in every 17 women will develop a lung malignancy in her lifetime.
*Only 18 percent of women know that women make up the majority of young (under age 40) lung cancer patients.
*Only 4 percent of women know that women typically do better than men following lung cancer treatment.
Another crucial subject addressed was that a quarter of all women "mistakenly believe there is a standard screening test to detect lung cancer in its early stages. Although such tests are in development, there is no clinically-approved screening test for this nation's top cancer killer".
"Lung cancer is often perceived as a man's disease, yet it affects tens of thousands of women, and we're very concerned that women seem to be in the dark when it comes to the facts about lung cancer and the significant impact lung cancer can have on their lives," said Dr. Joan Schiller, president of the National Lung Cancer Partnership.
A new survey finds that we as American women are greatly uninformed about the threats posed by lung cancer and how it can affect them.
According to the National Lung Cancer Partnership, lung cancer affects more than 80,000 American women annually, with over 70,000 cases proving to be fatal. Thirty thousand more women die annually from lung cancer than from breast cancer, they noted.
Vital findings include:
*Only 41 percent of women know that lung cancer is the leading cancer killer in the United States.
*Only 8 percent of women understand that exposure to radon gas is the second leading cause of lung cancer. Instead, 60 percent of women share the mistaken belief that exposure to secondhand smoke is the number two cause.
*Only 36 percent of women are aware that lung cancer kills more women than breast cancer.
*Only 29 percent know that lung cancer kills more women than breast, ovarian and uterine cancers combined.
*Only 41 percent of women know that one in every 17 women will develop a lung malignancy in her lifetime.
*Only 18 percent of women know that women make up the majority of young (under age 40) lung cancer patients.
*Only 4 percent of women know that women typically do better than men following lung cancer treatment.
Another crucial subject addressed was that a quarter of all women "mistakenly believe there is a standard screening test to detect lung cancer in its early stages. Although such tests are in development, there is no clinically-approved screening test for this nation's top cancer killer".
"Lung cancer is often perceived as a man's disease, yet it affects tens of thousands of women, and we're very concerned that women seem to be in the dark when it comes to the facts about lung cancer and the significant impact lung cancer can have on their lives," said Dr. Joan Schiller, president of the National Lung Cancer Partnership.
