In a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers focused on the link between lung cancer and tobacco use, analyzing all diagnoses of lung cancer since 1995 and data on the number of smokers since 1970. Scientists hoped to find some link to explain why lung cancer rates among women born since 1960 now exceed men. “Overall lung cancer incidence and mortality rates continue to be lower among women than among men,” said the report. But among white and Hispanic women born since the 1960s, “lung cancer rates have exceeded those in men, even though fewer women smoke,” it added. Perhaps the lessening exposure to asbestos, another leading cause of lung cancer, was more beneficial to men than women.

Source: New Strait Times May 23, 2018 21:00 UTC