Lung Cancer in the Age of Climate Change: A New Risk Factor Emerges
Is Climate Change the New Smoking? Unraveling the Emerging Risk Factor for Lung Cancer
Exploring the Shifting Landscape of Lung Cancer Risk Factors: From Tobacco to Climate Change
Lung cancer is among the deadliest of all cancers, and today many people continue to succumb to the disease. For many years, smoking has been widely attributed to be the cause of lung cancer. The statistics for instance have shown us that about 90% of lung cancer incidence is attributable to smoking. However, new and old research and workers are raising new awareness of climate change as a potentially substantial — and potentially increasing — risk factor for lung cancer. The statistics have long supported this, with around 90% of lung cancer cases linked to smoking. However, recent studies and experts are bringing new attention to climate change as a potentially significant — and potentially growing — risk factor for lung cancer. Has the influence of environmental factors at large and aggravated by climate change, superseded other factors that raise the rate of lung cancer? Here we establish a platform between both camps with looking at how climate change and smoking may be affecting the lungs.
