NATS 1670 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Passive Smoking, Boogie 2Nite

• School: York University
• Department: Natural Science
• Course: NATS 1670
• Professor: Motti Anafi

Document Summary

Adler (cid:523)(cid:883)9(cid:883)(cid:884)(cid:524): (cid:498)primary neoplasms of lung are among the rarest forms of the disease(cid:499) Cancer does not happen in the lungs naturally (pretty much immunized against cancer. Only 50% of people that get lung cancer will survive (with 5 year ratio) Smoking kills about 400,000 in the united states every year (hiroshima. It is now becoming a very common, it is also very aggressive killed 100,000) 50,000 canadians killed every year (equivalent of a small city) 22% of canadians aged 15-19 years old, were smokers in 2001. Damage of smoking is worse than any other factors that you can think of (drugs, alcohol) Lung cancer kills more females than breast cancer, and more males than prostate cancer. 1/3 of the smoking deaths in the us each year is due to copd. Alveoli cannot be replaced often have to take whole lung out. Tobacco and cancer (prof will be on exams)