The lung cancer deaths of Helsinki residents have clearly decreased
Health|The reduction in smoking is affected by the reduction in lung cancer mortality.
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The publication of the Helsinki City Information Unit shows that the lung cancer mortality of Helsinki residents has clearly decreased.
In 2023, 208 Helsinki residents died of lung cancer, which is 34 people per 100,000 inhabitants.
Lung cancer mortality in Helsinki has decreased by almost 40 per cent in 30 years, mainly due to smoking decreases.
Paula Kauppi, director of lung disease, says that improved treatment also affects the reduction in mortality.
Helsinki Lung cancer mortality has clearly decreased, Publication of the Helsinki City Information Unit show.
In 2023, 208 Helsinki residents died of lung cancer. The mortality rate was 34 people per 100,000 people.
The capital’s lung cancer mortality rate has decreased by almost 40 % in thirty years. In the past, death of lung cancer in Helsinki was more common than elsewhere in Finland.
The change has been faster in the rest of the country, the publication is revealed. Elsewhere in the country, death of lung cancer has decreased by less than a quarter.
Smoking was probably more common in Helsinki for a long time.
Mortality The reason for the reduction is at least a reduction in smoking. 80-90 % of all lung cancers are caused by smoking, the publication states.
Thus, in the fewer and fewer Helsinki, the lungs are damaged by smoking, HUS lung disease leader Paula Kauppi tells you.
Smoking makes the lungs darker because of the tar in tobacco, for example.
Improved treatment also affects the reduction of mortality. For example, lung imaging has increased.
General lifetime extending again increases non -smoking lung cancer, Kauppi says. According to him, the elderly have more lung diseases than the rest of the population.
Sexual Sometimes there are differences. Women in Helsinki died less than men throughout the thirty years of lung cancer than men. On the other hand, men’s mortality rate decreased more.
The level of education is also affected. Highly educated Helsinki residents had a lower risk of dying of lung cancer than low -educated people, and the publication emerges. Especially for low -educated men, many still smoke.
In Helsinki There are more traffic pollution than in many other locations in Finland. However, compared to the big cities in the world, Helsinki is good, Kauppi recalls.
If you live your whole life in the capital, air quality may slightly increase the risk of lung cancer or COPD. However, the risk is still very low, Kauppi says. Above all, air pollution can increase the symptoms of asthma or COPD, for example.
After cardiovascular disease, cancers are the most common cause of death in Finns, the publication says. Lung cancer is the third most common cancer in men and women and has nearly 3,000 Finns each year.
