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Studies have shown that more than half of lung cancer patients in India do not smoke

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Last updated: 2024/07/11 at 9:42 AM
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A lung cancer patient in India is likely to be 10 years younger than a patient in the West and possibly someone who avoids smoking, a lifestyle factor associated with it.

This typical, though uniq-ue, profile of an Indian patient has emerged in a special review of lung cancer cases in Asia in The Lancet, one of the most widely read medical journals in the world.

Studies have shown that lung cancer presents approximately a decade earlier in India as compared to Western countries, with a mean age at diagnosis of 54-70 years.

Written by a team of doctors, mainly from Tata Memorial Centre in Mumbai, the article, titled of lung cancer in Southeast Asia’, said lung cancer was the third most commonly diagnosed cancer (18.5 lakh new cases or 7.8%) in this in 2020, but it is the commonest cause of cancer mortality, causing 16.6 lakh or 10.9% deaths. The corresponding global figures are 22 lakh new cases (11.6%), causing 17 lakh deaths (18%). In India, lung cancer accounts for an annual incidence of 72,510 cases (5.8%) and 66,279 deaths (7.8%).

Highlighting “uniqueness” of Indian patients, one of the authors, Dr Kumar Prabash from Tata Medical Centre’s medical oncology department, on Tuesday told TOI that “over 50% of our cancer patients are non-smokers”.

The study said the important risk factors for lung cancer in non-smokers included air pollution (especially particulate matter PM2.5), occupational exposure to asbestos, chromium, cadmium, arsenic and coal as well as second-hand smoke at home. Factors like genetic susceptibility, hormonal status, and pre-existing lung could also play a role in the rising lung cancer incidence in never- smokers.

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