What is lung cancer? - Small cell lung cancer (15-20%) are
characterized by very rapid growth. In this disease, a surgical
cure is rarely successful. - Non-small cell lung cancer to grow
more slowly, with localized disease, the surgery has a very high
priority. Worldwide, each year about one million people from
lung cancer. 90% of sufferers die from this tumor. Thus, lung
cancer is the most common fatal cancer among the men. For women,
this cancer behind breast and colorectal cancer ranks third. In
Austria, of which about 3500 patients / year are affected. 85%
of the tumors are due to smoking, only 3-5% on secondhand smoke.
With the number of cigarettes smoked directly increases the risk
of developing lung cancer. At 20-40 cigarettes, the risk is
already increased 15-fold. Worldwide there are approximately 1.1
billion smokers, representing a sixth of world population, it
will be 5,500 billion cigarettes / year implemented. In Europe,
continues to increase in the proportion of smokers has noted
(1995: 34% of t