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k41150
Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 03:58 AMre: Untitled Comment
Anne Mitchell
Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 08:12 AMThank you for your comments. I appreciate your perspective, however I would like to corrrect the number you quoted so readers will have the latest information.
Recent studies show that up to 10% of lung cancer victims never smoked (not over 20%). The 20% number refers only to a study that looked at female lung cancer victims and the jury is still out on why that is, although there are strong indicators that second-hand smoke is the culprit in many (but certainly not all) of these cases.
A new Web-based clinical trial run by researchers at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center is inviting people who have lung cancer and who never smoked to help them understand more. To learn about joining this study, see http://www.emaxhealth.com/1275/99/33907/lung-cancer-patients-who-never-smoked-invited-study.html
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k41150
Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 07:34 PMPeople WANT lung cancers to be caused by smoking, which gives the anti-smoking groups ammunition, but you never see people struggling to fit other cancers into health-related behaviors. For example, I never see anti-drinking groups trying to claim liver cancers as resulting from alcohol or stomach cancers as being the result of fatty foods. Cancer has been around longer than any of these behaviors/substances and trying to assume that only our new environments are the reason for the disease; I consider that to be somewhat hysterical thinking.
While it's true that the toxins we inhale/ingest can be blamed for increased numbers of cancers, trying to affix full blame to them is naive at best. You're working from a position of bias and everything you write has to be taken with a minimum of a grain of salt.
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k41150
Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 08:00 PMOh, and BTW...I don't smoke and my mother died from lung cancer.
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I think your articel would have been helped if you'd stayed on track and not resorted to sentimentalism. Also, getting the facts straight would have helped, too, as regards Mr. Newman and movies:
Newman announced that he would entirely retire from acting on May 25, 2007. He stated that he did not feel he could continue acting at the level he wanted to. "You start to lose your memory, you start to lose your confidence, you start to lose your invention. So I think that's pretty much a closed book for me."
People die from many kinds of cancer and while lung cancer is in fact the most prevalent form of the disease, more than 20% of those who contract lung cancer have never smoked.