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Subject: smoking statistics/throat, lung cancer
Category: Health > Conditions and Diseases
Asked by: elgoo-ga
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Posted: 26 Jun 2006 05:48 PDT
Expires: 26 Jul 2006 05:48 PDT
Question ID: 741092

what are the probabilities of a person who smokes more than a pack of cigarettes
a day, from his/her youth, with no intention of quitting, (with all
other environmental and hereditary factors being non-signifigant), acquiring
cancer of the the throat and/or lung in his/her lifetime...?

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Subject: Re: smoking statistics/throat, lung cancer
From: jashoeuh-ga on 19 Jul 2006 14:39 PDT

Don't know about the throat cancer possibilities, but here is an
online tool for lung cancer.  Looks like someone who is 65, smoking
since 15 about a pack a day, has about a 10% chance of contracting
lung cancer during the following 10 years.  Link to the tool below...

www.mskcc.org/PredictionTools/LungCancer

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