WASHINGTON, June 11 – Reckon yourself a decade older than your real age if you smoke. The chances of death of a 55-year-old smoker are almost same to 65-year-old person who doesn’t smoke. These are the suggestions of newly published charts that were aimed to present some of American people’s biggest health risks.

The concept of risk is difficult to understand as it assimilates math and emotion. People are often flooded with challenging warnings of health risks.

“How big the risk is and how does it compare with other risks, these are the questions that must be addressed in useful messages about health risks.” Dr. Lisa Schwartz of the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in White River Junction, Vt. stated.

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People who are taking at least four servings of green salad every week and undertaking gardening once or twice a week have a reduced risk for developing lung cancer, regardless of whether or not they are smokers.

Dr. Michele Forman and his colleague research team presented the findings of this research study in the recently held ‘American Association for Cancer Research’s Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research conference’ in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, Dr.Michele Forman and colleagues from the ‘MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas’, examined data from an ongoing case-control study to develop separate epidemiologic risk assessment models for lung cancer in current, former, and never smokers.

Potential risk factors causing lung cancer included exposure to second-hand smoke and to dust; a cancer related family history, a history of respiratory disease in the index patient, and history of smoking. This model however revolves around certain limitations demonstrating modest discriminatory power.

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White women in their pre-menopause phase of life have double the risk for breast cancer if they are smokers. A recent case-control study revealed that it is because of the ‘BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene-mutation’.

Results of the study and the investigation report have been published in the journal “Breast Cancer Research and Treatment”. This report established the fact that the women who were smoking for last five or more five pack-years have twice the risk as non-smokers to have breast cancer.

Researchers are of the view that if these findings are confirmed, it will also provide a solution for the ‘mutation carriers’ in order to reduce the risk for developing the breast cancer.

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