Cancer of the respiratory tract - Burning incense would be carcinogenic?

After a long day at work can give yourself a warm bath to relieve your stress, in an atmosphere cosi with only a few light candles with essential oils, or you are in business on the ground suitable for reflection. If this habit is to replace the burning of incense, a new study you can think twice.

Published in the Journal of American Medical cancer, the study prolonged use of incense for the development of lung cancer and respiratory infections. Some people use perfume and incense and also internal, others used as a tool for reflection.

For a period of twelve years, and Mr. T.. Jeppe friborg and his team of researchers at the Institute of serum statens in Copenhagen, one study in Singapore, to show the effects of incense in a country where burning incense is a semi-cultural. The study followed the 61 320 Chinese burn incense in their permanent homes. Preliminary data showed that some of the consequences of burning incense may cause cancer.

This study focused on men and women aged 45 to 74 years each in good health have also begun. Frequency of incense held by the researchers. During the twelve years, 325 men and women as a form of the upper throat cancer (cancer of the nose and mouth, larinx), and 821 participants were affected by lung cancer.

Relationship with the risk of lung cancer is not clearly defined by this study, because there is no evidence that the overall effect of those who smoke of incense was higher than in non incense burners. However, the risk of cancer of the upper respiratory tract incense burners was higher than usual.

Friborg and his team say that, "This association is compatible with a large number of studies and identification of carcinogens in the smoke of incense ... Given the magnitude and sometimes involuntary exposure to tobacco smoke from burning incense, these findings lead to significant consequences on public health."

Among the participants of burning incense on a permanent basis, 80% of them were more likely to develop cancer of the airline, the fragment arcinome Epithelium (antigen fragment the company's cell cancer), a form of cancer, tumors that grow on the internal and external walls of the nose and throat And mouth.

Greater risk of cancer through the use of incense regular unchanged when taking into account the eating habits, alcohol consumption and tobacco.