For more than twenty years, the number of lung cancers in women has increased by more than 5% each year. Soon, it will become the most deadly cancer in women, exceeding the number of breast cancers . A paradox, since in France, women's cancers are almost all in decline.

Before, in operating theaters, more lung tumors were removed from men. Today, one in three is removed on a woman's lung, relay this June 4 site AlloDocteurs .

The main cause ? 30 years of tobacco consumption

This strong increase is explained by the rate of smoking . For thirty years, more and more women have been smoking. The trouble is that the consequences on their bodies are more important than on men.

The onset of smoking among women appears in the 60s. More than fifty years later, the effects of smoking on the lungs appear and the damage is considerable.

Women increasingly affected by respiratory diseases

Other respiratory diseases are affecting more and more women. This is particularly the case of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (also known as COPD), an incurable chronic inflammatory bronchial disease. This is also linked to smoking, but also to air pollution.

Every year, more than 17,000 people die from COPD.

Currently, lung cancer is the deadliest in men. But if the figures continue to evolve in this direction, women will also be affected by this plague in pole position. In patients aged 30 to 40 who started smoking in the 1980s, this equality is already apparent.