March 17, 2010
- Coos Bay / North Bend, Oregon
Report: Coos County has highest lung, oral cancer rates in state
By Kristina Nelson KCBY News
NORTH BEND, Ore. - A new report from the Oregon State Cancer Registry shows Coos County ranks highest in the state for lung and oral cancer.
The statistics are taken from data collected over a 10-year period ending in 2006. "Coos County has had similar statistics for generations now, decades, we've most always been the highest smoking county in the state," says Coos County Tobacco Prevention Coordinator Stephen Brown. That high rate of smokers has helped contribute to the new statistics. "I've been following these rates for ten years so it's not surprising. I see the death certificates and I see every week the cancers, the lung cancer," says Coos County Public Health Administrator Frances Smith. In 2009, over 13,000 Coos County adults regularly smoked cigarettes and 226 people died from tobacco use. Smith says to turn these statistics around, you need to change community norms and the way it looks at tobacco use. "I have seen some community organizations like the local hospitals go smoke free," says Smith. Both say that, as more public areas go smoke and tobacco free, their hope is in 10 more years, these statistics will turn around. |
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