Sentences with phrase «lung cancer rates»

Instead we form hypotheses about why they have lower lung cancer rates * despite * their tobacco consumption.

Beta - carotene is an antioxidant that has been much discussed in connection with lung cancer rates.

Co-author, Fabio Levi (MD), Emeritus Professor at the Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, (Switzerland), said: «We need effective tobacco control in European women in order for overall rates to level off at around 15 to 17 per 100,000, and so that subsequently we can start seeing a fall in female lung cancer rates in Europe.»

«How is this environmental justice when tugboats and 500 garbage trucks a day will spew carcinogenic diesel fumes, raising asthma and lung cancer rates for children and New Yorkers?»

The same study revealed higher lung cancer rates in short to medium length nosed dogs who live with smokers (like boxers and bulldogs) because their shorter nasal passages allow the carcinogenic particles to reach the lungs more easily.

It is worrying that female lung cancer rates are not decreasing in the UK, but this probably reflects the fact that there was an additional rise in smoking prevalence in the UK as well in the post-1968 generation — those born after 1950,» said Prof La Vecchia.

Differences in smoking patterns account for much of the variation in lung cancer rates around the globe.

«Wide variation in lung cancer rates globally, study finds.»

«UK and Polish women, particularly UK women, have long had much higher lung cancer rates than most other European countries (except Denmark, which is not considered separately in this study).

Higher levels of green tea consumption in Asia are thought to be responsible for lower lung cancer rates, despite higher smoking rates.

For example, ecologic studies show a negative association between county - level average radon levels and lung cancer rates, but studies of individuals show strong positive associations between exposure to radon gas and lung cancer.

Professor Carlo La Vecchia (MD), professor at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Milan (Italy), one of the study authors, said: «We still have to be cautious about the lung cancer rates in women since these are predictions.

Smoking rates declined and lung cancer rates have too.

The only recent comprehensive analysis of lung cancer rates for women around the world finds lung cancer rates are dropping in young women in many regions of the globe, pointing to the success of tobacco control efforts.

One study has shown that lung cancer rates have increased 400 percent in some areas due to the ever - growing pollution problem.

NOTE: The lung cancer rates for males has been on the decline since 2000 and has been relatively stable for females between 2000 and 2009.

Air pollution in China is so bad that many cities are permanently shrouded in a toxic cloud, and lung cancer rates have soared in the past decade.

«In some of the industrial provinces, lung cancer rates have increased a staggering four-fold» and the cause seems to be air pollution, largely due to coal burning.