Lung diseases kill women more than breast cancer

The UK Lung Foundation (British Lung Foundation-BLF) on October 30 indicated that lung diseases were more fatal to women than breast cancer, but nearly 90% of the respondents did not. now know about this situation.

In 2005, more than 11,000 women in England and Wales were killed by lung-related illnesses that could have been prevented or treated, compared with 10,069 deaths from breast cancer.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease), caused by smoking or environmental pollution, is a serious, fatal disease. COPD symptoms are prolonged cough, shortness of breath, chest tightness and pneumonia. Women are particularly susceptible to COPD because their airways are narrower than men.

Dame Helena Shovelton, curator of the BLF, said that in the UK more women die from COPD than the number of people who die from breast cancer, but the alarming situation is almost unnoticed by women. to this disease.

If early detection of symptoms, COPD can be treated. Of more than 3 million patients in the UK with COPD, more than 2 million people are not diagnosed promptly.