Exposure to forest fire smoke can reduce the chances of survival of patients with lung cancer

A California study presented at a major medical meeting on Saturday concluded that exposure to bush fire smoke increased the risk of deaths to lung cancer, especially among non -smokers, but this effect could fall through cancer treatments. The researchers follow more than 18,000 non -grandchildren -lung cancer, the most common type, between 2017 and 2020, where they found that those who lived in areas causing the highest levels of air pollution by forest fires, the year after the diagnosis of their cancer, probably died of the disease. The researchers said at the American Association for Clinical Oncology in Chicago that patients who inhale higher levels of fine particles with a diameter of 2.5 microns or less who can penetrate deep into the lungs increased their risk by 20%. The researchers found that people with the fourth phase of cancer that never smoked are more affected. The risk of their death increased by 55%as they were exposed to high levels of infected air due to forest fires. Specific health strategies and the study used an advanced model to estimate air quality daily in patients’ homes, based on satellite data, weather models, smoking expectations and air quality controls. The researchers also found that exposure to bush fire smoke did not survive the chances of surviving patients with lung cancer in the fourth phase who used to smoke and received immunotherapy. The researchers said: “This surprising tendency indicates that the changes associated with smoking in the body can interact with certain treatments.” They added that there is a need to do more studies for this phenomenon. Forest smoke smoking is more toxic than normal polluted air, as it often contains the effects of chemicals, minerals, plastic and other artificial materials, as well as soil molecules and biological materials. “With the increasing frequency and density of forest fires in California and other parts of the United States, we need specific health strategies to protect cancer patients and others suffering from serious health problems.”