Lung cancer may become a history in Scotland as more smokers are looking forward to quit smoking as a result of a ban on public smoking.
As per Chief Medical Officer of Scotland, Dr. Harry Burns, lung cancer may become a history as more smokers are looking forward to quit smoking as a result of a ban on public smoking. The ban is helping smokers to quit & would reduce cases of lung cancer to few hundreds in twenty years from 4,500 cases at present.
His yearly report also highlighted signs of improvement in immunization, breast-feeding & life expectancy rates.
He said that imagining Scotland without lung cancer cases is an important assumption. In 1960s, 1 in hundred men died because of lung cancer. Many people quitting smoking due to public smoking ban will result in smoke-free public places & indirectly cutting down lung cancer, strokes, heart diseases & asthma rates.
"Smoke free places are not only protecting non-smokers from passive smoking but also helps smokers to reduce nicotine consumption," said an analyst at RNCOS.
Lung cancer is still the leading factor of deaths caused due to cancer only in Scotland & around 570 Lothians died because of this type of cancer. In 90% of cases, smoking is the major cause behind lung cancer, though lung cancer cases have peaked in males, it is also increasing in females as well.
Better diagnosis & treatment signifies that there is improvement in survival rates. In the last 25 years, rate of survival for all the cancers in the period of 5 years has risen from 30 % to 50 %.
As per the recent figures, heart disease deaths declined by 5.2% in 2004-05 & overall incidence decline by 25% in last ten years.
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