christibro40
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Well all I can tell byou is from oersonal experience and family history. My mom is 63, smoked for half that time, no signs of being a smoker. though your mom shows signs of being a smoker, she may have a healthy enough diet that is preventing the cancer itself. My mother's lings, etc do no t show signs of being a smoker. I have been exposed since i was a baby, and I have smoked snce I was about 12. I have a chronic illness, so My lungs are`chekecd almost every 6 months, mine dont even indicate I am one. or even any exposure. even with Lupus. Some people who never smoke get it, some who do never get it. There is a genetic compononent to all cancers. also diet palys a role, if she eats foods rich in antioxidents, even with her other issues, she may not die of cancer per-say, but of other ocmplicaitons..
She does have empasyma and breathing problems, and seemingly copd. if told that i would quit. I know, with all the antioxident I take in, lung cancer is the least of my worries. I also know a woman my age 40, with copd. so genetics depends a lot. Not all smokers get cancer.
even for her length of time, the likelyhood is low, and i she does, it would still give her a few years. Cancer, of anytype, is hit and miss, in my family lets say, they do not die of cancers, but of old age, or alzheimers. Your right, it is a gene that may trigger the cancer, she just dosnet have it, however, the smoking, has cause severe damage and she should quit. I have an autoimmune disease, which can attack anything, but heart and lungs always look very good, whic suprises me to no end. What will happen when I am 60 or 70, no clue, but that paticular cancer gene does not seem to be present.
I have also seemed to notice that its usually the ones that quit, who after a few years, seem to develope lung cancer. Its all very strange. so there is no real cut and dry answer. Luck and God may be with her, but emphysema may still get her, as well as COPD, if severe. The reality, like many illnesses, lung cancer is luck or unluck of the draw. I am 40 years of exposure, my own and second hand smoke, why does it show, Ive never been exposed a day in my life? Its all a mystery. so is why your mom has not developed it yet. other then that I have no explanation, then luck, genetics, and an obiovious, non-predempsidy ( im a poor dpeller sorry), to mot getting, cancers.
Good luck with you and her. she sounds like a spit-fire
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