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To: Grainne who wrote (14626)	4/24/1998 9:17:00 PM
From: Jack Clarke	Read Replies (2) of 20981

Christine, I was really surprised that my father developed COPD in his seventies, since he had quit about fifteen years earlier, What you are asking is impossible to guess, even in general terms. Twenty pack-years may be as good a guess as any (one pack per day for twenty years, two packs a day for ten years, etc.) There are too many other factors which are poorly understood or impossible to measure, especially host resistance and the time when chronic inflammation changes to metaplasia to frank cancer, etc. etc. My father's case was similar to yours. He gave up smoking about age 52 and got incurable lung cancer about age 68. I operated on a 34 year old woman for lung cancer a few years ago. She had been smoking since age 14. When I was in medical school we were taught that lung cancer was rare in females. This was in the late 50's - early 60's. The generation of women which started smoking before and during the war had not yet had time for the disease to catch up with them. Now they are on an equal footing with men as regards lung cancer. "You've come a long way, Baby." Indeed. Jack

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