90% Of cases of COPD and lung cancer are associated with the consumption of tobacco
-la pulmonary chronic obstructive disease (COPD) is the fourth leading cause of mortality worldwide
-There are 18,500 new cases of lung cancer every year in Spain
Madrid, 2011-November on the occasion of the celebration of the day world of disease pulmonary obstructive chronic (COPD) and the international day in lung cancerThe city of Madrid through Madrid health collaborated in a seminar, organized by the AstraZeneca Foundation, sought to raise awareness about the influence of tobacco, responsible for 90% of the emergence of these diseases.
Locals who approached from 11 a.m. on Tuesday, November 15 at the tent located in the Plaza de Spain in Madrid received full information on how to prevent COPD, respiratory disease of higher prevalence and socio-economic impact that affects 10.2% of the population aged between 40 and 80 years in Spain of age, and on lung cancer, disease which constitutes one of the leading causes of death in Spain and that 90 per cent of cases occur among people who smoke.
This prevention space, which also participated in the Spanish Association of affected of cancer of lung (AEACAP), the National Federation of associations of respiratory diseases (FENAER), the Sociedad Española de OncologÃa Médica (SEOM), and the Spanish society for Pneumology and thoracic surgery (SEPAR)There were areas enabled the realization of espirometrÃas, test our capacity and lung volume and cooximetrÃas, exploration that allows to know the amount of carbon monoxide that a person is in the air to breathe.
