Women smokers to take lung cancer lead
Each year, between 25,000 and 30,000 people in Greece are diagnosed with cancer and one out of five of them will eventually die of the disease, doctors said yesterday at a news conference announcing a national conference on clinical oncology in Thessaloniki later this week. Men are most often the victims, being especially afflicted by cancer in the lungs, the urinary and the gastrointestinal system, said Thessaloniki University Associate Professor Lazaros Boutis. Women are most often affected by breast cancer, followed by cancer in the gastrointestinal system, the reproductive organs and the lungs. However, with more and more women becoming addicted to tobacco, in 20 years, more women than men are expected to die of lung cancer. «Although men have a tradition of smoking, the number of women with lung cancer will be greater than that with breast cancer, which today is the most common form of cancer in women,» said Constantine Dimitriadis, director of the Theageneio Hospital’s oncology unit. The 11th Panhellenic Conference on Clinical Oncology will be held in Thessaloniki from Friday to Saturday.
