Community Management of Smoking and Lung Cancer

Running head: COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT OF SMOKING AND LUNG CANCER
Community management of smoking and lung cancer
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INTRODUCTION:
One of the most common types of cancer in Australia is lung cancer, which affects the
males more than females and is one of the leading causes of burden of disease. It is also
evident that smoking tobacco attributes for 90% of lung cancer cases. More prolonged
exposure to smoking poses a higher risk for lung cancer than shorter duration
(Tobaccoinaustralia.org.au. 2020). Smoking also contributes to 20% of all cancer burden of
disease every year in the nation. Smoking not only causes lung cancer but at least 15 types of
cancer. Addiction to smoking is quite prevalent in children under 14 years and affected 12.2
of the younger population in 2016. Smoking doubles mortality rate when ten cigarettes per
day are smoked by daily smokers (Cancer.org.au. 2020). By 2019, around 12,817 cases of
lung cancer were estimated in Australia (Lung-cancer.canceraustralia.gov.au. 2020).
Therefore, it is significant to quit smoking that decreases the mortality rate due to incurrence
of lung cancer.
Fig 1: Age-standardised incidence rates for lung cancer

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Fig 2: Incidence of smoking by sex ( Image retrieved from Cancer.org.au. 2020).

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Fig 3: common types of cancer estimated cases in 2019 (Image retrieved from Lung-
cancer.canceraustralia.gov.au. 2020).
Fig 4: most common causes of cancer mortality estimated in 2019 (Image retrieved from
Lung-cancer.canceraustralia.gov.au. 2020).
A community is responsible for offering diverse targets for prevention of disease
through community-based activities. These activities are involved in planning, progression,
implementation, and assessment of strategies and programs related to the particular disease
(Committee on Valuing Community-Based et al., 2020). The purpose of this paper is to
discuss about different levels of community-based interactions for implementing various
strategies to prevent smoking and lung cancer.