Lung cancer has become the number of patients of malignant tumors

The third population of the National Death reason sampling survey: Cancer has become the first cause of death in China's urban residents, accounting for 25% of all deaths. The lung has become a malignant tumor the number of patients first.

Capital University of Medical Diagnosis and Treatment of Lung Cancer Center Deputy Director, Capital Medical University, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, director of thoracic surgery, vice chairman of the Professional Committee of the Beijing Medical Thoracic Surgery Professor Li Hui in the recently initiated by the Chinese Cancer Fund tobacco control and lung cancer prevention and control of the Ministry of supported by AstraZeneca (China), "Caring for lung cancer - a better life 'easy' up" lung cancer prevention promotional activities that: China has become the number of patients of malignant tumors, such tumor is primary in the lung, malignant tumor of the trachea and bronchi, diagnosed more than advanced, prevention of the consequences of unsatisfactory progress very rapidly and so on.

The main cause of lung cancer is smoking, worldwide since the 1950s has been a large number of epidemiological studies confirm that smoking is the primary cause of lung cancer risk factors in the patients who died due to lung cancer, 87% by Smoking (including passive smoking). Male smokers of lung cancer death rate is 8 to 20 times the non-smokers.