African Americans Have Unique Lung Cancer Risks From Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

�Scientists at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center have developed a risk prognostication assessment for lung cancer the Crab specifically for African Americans that suggests a greater risk from chronic clogging pulmonary disease (COPD), according to a report published in the September issuance of Cancer Prevention Research , a daybook of the American Association for Cancer Research.



Etzel and colleagues analyzed information from 491 African Americans with lung cancer and 497 African Americans without lung crab to identify risk factors for the disease. They then compared these danger factors with a antecedently established risk of exposure prediction model for whites.


What was unique to African Americans was the risk associated with chronic obstructive pneumonic disease. African American workforce with a prior history of continuing obstructive pulmonic disease had a more than six-fold increased risk of infection of lung cancer, similar to that seen with smoking. This is roughly two-fold higher than the risk typically seen from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease among whites.


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