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Sierra

Joined: 12-Aug-2007
Posts: 25
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 08:21 pm
Post topic: Lung Cancer and Genetics		  
My father died from lung cancer when he was 59 years old. His mother, my paternal grandmother, died of a different form of lung cancer when she was in her late 60s. Both of them were lifelong smokers, although my grandmother quit smoking 7 years before she was diagnosed with lung cancer.

Are people more prone to lung cancer if their parents, grandparents, or siblings have had it? And if you quit smoking, will you always be at a higher risk of lung cancer?
Tags: lung-cancer , oat-cell-carcinoma , bronchial-alveolar-adenocarcinoma , genetics , risks
 
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RavenCares

Joined: 25-Jul-2007
Posts: 197
Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 04:44 am
Post topic: Lung Cancer and Genetics		  
Hi, Sierra. The medical community has known for some time now that the propensity of getting lung cancer does seem to have a family connection. If both your father and paternal grandmother died of lung cancer, you really need to quit smoking.

It used to be that doctors said your lungs would recover within 5 years of quitting. But I don't think they say that anymore. You may always be at a higher risk of developing lung cancer, but the risk should decrease the longer you don't smoke.
 
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Cheerful

Joined: 14-Aug-2007
Posts: 123
Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 01:22 am
Post topic: Lung Cancer and Genetics		  
What's really scary is that people are getting lung cancer who never smoked orlived with a smoker. i think that says a lot about a genetic predisposition to lung cancer... and the other carcinogens in our environment that are not due to smoking.
 
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tennies

Joined: 14-Aug-2007
Posts: 7
Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 02:24 am
Post topic: Lung Cancer and Genetics		  
I totally think that lung cancer can be attributed to stuff in the environment - have you been near a freeway at rush hour? or walk down a city street on a weekday? car exhaust has to have a bad effect on our lungs - and then there's all the industrial garbage spewing into the air and getting into our water - the whole thing probably has an impact on our genetic makeup too
 
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Cheerful

Joined: 14-Aug-2007
Posts: 123
Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 03:45 am
Post topic: Lung Cancer and Genetics		  
Since environment seems to have such a big impact, I wonder if there are ghigher cases of lung cancer in higher plloution areas. I'm sure someone has done a study on that somewhere. WhenI wasin Paris, I remember blowing my nose at the end of the day and the tissue was black.... I wonder what their lung cancer rate is for non-smokers...
 
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RavenCares

Joined: 25-Jul-2007
Posts: 197
Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 06:48 am
Post topic: Lung Cancer and Genetics		  
I know that the medical community in Los Angeles used to acknowledge higher lung-cancer rates among nonsmokers in LA than in other cities. That was back in the 1970s though, and I haven't heard much said since then. Sometimes I think the government shuts up the statistics about the havoc that air pollution and water pollution causes.
 
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sadielady

Joined: 26-Aug-2007
Posts: 42
Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 10:53 pm
Post topic: Lung Cancer and Genetics		  
I think you hit it on the head Ravencares - there are many things that the govt keeps quite.

Sadie
 
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Lynx123123

Joined: 26-May-2008
Posts: 1
Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 06:06 pm
Post topic: Lung Cancer and Genetics		  
Rich peoples are known to die of having cancer...Why is it that most rich people die because of cancer? Rich dies because of cancer while the poor dies because of ulcer, haha, sounds funny because its a rhyme, well thats the truth, ulcer because some have nothing to eat. Rich dont die on that.

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