A risk factor is any agent that increases the risk of developing a particular disease, ie, a person exposed to this factor has more chances of getting the disease.
Several factors that are related with lung cancer. These include:
Snuff: between 80-90% of lung cancers occur in smokers, or who have recently quit, but no concrete evidence that smoking is associated with a specific histological subtype, but tends to relate more to the with squamous cell carcinoma and small cell cancer, and less frequently with adenocarcinoma. Smokers have a risk of 10 to 20 times more likely to develop lung cancer (according to the number of cigarettes smoked per day) than non-smokers. The use of snuff light does not change the risk of the disease. (more…)
