Q&A: How many teenagers get lung cancer every year?? Or how many in the last 10 years?
Question by T A: How many teenagers get lung cancer every year?? Or how many in the last 10 years?
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Answer by Spreedog
Very few teens develop lung cancer. Only 3% of people diagnosed with lung cancer are under 45 tears of age. The average person with lung cancer is over 65 years of age. I know. I saw hundreds of them.
But it is the decades of smoking that cause the lung cancers later on in life. It is estimated that 90% of all lung cancers we cause ourselves by smoking hundreds of thousands of cigarettes over many years when we know better. These are among the most difficult cancers to treat for cure. Only 15% of lung cancer patients live 5 years after diagnosis. More than 31% of all cancer deaths in the USA are caused by people smoking. If we truly want to avoid the most common cause of cancer death, we should not smoke cigarettes. Forget about a cure for lung cancers anytime soon. We can prevent 90% of them ourselves. Men who are chronic smokers are 23 times more likely to develop lung cancers than non-smokers.
There are about 220,000 people diagnosed with lung cancer each year in the U.S. and about 160,000 deaths. Lung cancer deaths are more common than the next three most common cancer deaths COMBINED in the U.S.
From 1998 to 2003, the median age at lung cancer diagnosis was 70 years of age.
The percentages of people diagnosed with lung cancer based on age were as follows:
http://lung-cancer.emedtv.com/lung-cancer/lung-cancer-statistics.html
* 0.0 percent were diagnosed under age 20
* 0.3 percent between 20 and 34
* 2.1 percent between 35 and 44
* 8.8 percent between 45 and 54
* 21.1 percent between 55 and 64
* 32.6 percent between 65 and 74
* 28.2 percent between 75 and 84
* 6.9 percent 85+ years of age.
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