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Higher rates of lung cancer in women are a mystery for researchers (www.cnn.com)

submitted 11 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/health@lemmy.world

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More young and middle-aged women are being diagnosed with lung cancer at a higher rate than men, and scientists are struggling to understand why, new research shows. Awareness of the disease’s effects on women is lacking, experts say, and the US government spends significantly less on its research than on similar studies in men.

“When you ask people what the number one cancer killer of women is, most will say that it’s breast cancer. It’s not. It’s lung cancer. Lung cancer is a women’s health disease, but we clearly need to educate more people about it,” said Dr. Andrea McKee, a radiation oncologist and volunteer medical spokesperson for the American Lung Association.

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[–] IonAddis@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is completely pulling ideas out of my butt, but it's been shown time and time again that small particulate matter is bad for lungs, and women tend to wear makeup daily for large chunks of their lives.

Could there be some subtle carcinogen effect from makeup dust which only builds up through years/decades of constant makeup use? And now that tobacco use is on the wane, that spike is only being uncovered now?

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 11 months ago

Anything with talc, has a certain percentage of asbestos in it.

Ask J&J why they’re hiding their assets to avoid paying for the baby powder that killed people for decades.

I know powdered makeup used to have talc, but none of the stuff my wife ever used had much in the way of ingredients listed on it. That needs to change, especially with regard to carcinogens and allergens.