Rena Inoue Discusses Her Lung Cancer

[PAskate]

http://www.usfsa.org/Story.asp?id=33040

[Nicki]

Thanks for the article link. I just received an E-mail today saying that a former neighbor of mine had died from Lung Cancer earlier this week, so it's nice to read about someone who is a survivor. I wish her and John good luck in Turino.

[loveskating]

I was in the hospital 6 days and 5 nights last year in early February with pneumonia, and my room mate had lung cancer. I spent two weeks in suspence and dread being checked for lung cancer (it was only scar tissue thankfully).

To overcome lung cancer to be such a great athlete is really something! My hat is really off to her.

[becky_girl]

This might end up sounding really dumb but I'm confused:

How does an athlete - a figure skater no less - get lung cancer? I thought this was a very preventable type of cancer, much related to lifestyle? Please inform me.

I could fathom a snow boarder maybe, lol.
What with the admitted stereotypes (apres-snowboard 'recreational activities') ;) as exemplified by our own Canadian champ snowboarder: Rob What's-his-name.

Was her father a smoker? Did she live with him?
Did she work in a smokey atmosphere?

Canadian Senior Ladies Lesley Hawker worked in a bar/restaurant to meet her training costs. All bars & restaurants became smoke-free (in Ontario) a couple of years ago. Same is happening in Quebec in April 2006. (yey!)

The media reports that second-hand smoke is just as bad as smoking yourself - and then other times the reports state that it is not... ?

[EastonSkater]

Well, maybe when you live in a highly polluted city when you're young, or even when you're older, it could cause lung cancer. Even passive smoking. Or just due to unknown causes.

[sue123]

Lung cancer can very easily be caused by secondhand smoke, especially if you're around it a lot. I don't know her family background, if her father smoked or not. But sometimes, cancers come baout for no other reason than a bunch of bad cells plop down and start dividing uncontrollably.

[Schmeck]

Women nonsmokers do get lung cancer for no apparent reason other than a bad cell mutation. It's a very small percentage of lung cancer cases, but Christopher Reeve's widow is one of them.

[LTM]

not all lung cancers are smoke related. Maybe she had one of those genetic
predisposition or it runs in her family.
Doesn't mean that cigarette smoke isn't the leading cause of lung cancer just that some people are really unlucky.