By Manon C. Published on January 18, 2022 at 8:13 p.m.
A study to be presented at the 26th Congress of French-speaking pneumology reveals that lung cancer in women is increasing exponentially.
According to a study baptized KPB-2020 and presented at the 26th French Language Pneumology Congress, scheduled in Lille from January 21 to 23, 2022, on lung cancer is growing exponentially in women and could well become the leading cause of cancer death for the latter in the coming years, as is already the case in United States.
The study, carried out with 9000 patients, shows that 34% of women are affected by lung cancer in 2020, compared to 16% in 2000. A figure that even reaches 41% among women under 50. “We had already seen an increase of 16 to 24% between 2000 and 2010. But there, it continues, the observation is confirmed and unfortunately beyond what we had expected” declare it Dr Didier Debieuvre, at the origin of the study, which estimates that we could speak, in the years to come, of “global pandemic” lung cancer in women.
Among the main causes: tobacco, causing more than 85% of cases, and the cannabis, although the study also shows that 12.6% of patients are non smokers (against 7.2% in 2000). “This increase is clearly linked to the increase in smoking in women. We are now far from the image of lung cancer reserved for the worker who is a heavy smoker. explains Doctor Debieuvre.
In contrast, lung cancer cases between 2000 and 2020 seem stables at the men, or even in diminution at the youth – but screening in young adults is also less frequent.