Lung Cancer Rates Among Women On the Rise

Fresh figures released by the charity - Cancer Exploration U. K., indicate the contrasting trends in smoking between men and women have caused a razor-sharp increase in lung malignancy cases among women. The actual figures show a 73% rise for women, and a 47% cut down among men since 75 (men who smoke have been on the drop since the 1950s [women who smoke would not begin to drop until the 1970s]).

Different startling figures released were as follows:

U. P. lung cancer rates have fallen (overall) by twenty percent since 1975.
2011 twelve-monthly figures were around 43, 500 cases (23, 800 men, and 19, seven-hundred women).
35, 200 moralities (19, 600 men, and 15, 600 women [same 2011 period]).
Women - 41 in every 100, 000 have problems with lung cancer (up from 23 in every 75, 000 in 1975).

Chest cancer is the second most common cancer in the U. K. (breast cancer being in the number-1 spot).
Lung cancers in now the number-1 cancer killer in the U. K., which gets rid of 50% more sufferers than the second most clinically diagnosed cancer - bowel malignancy.
87% of all instances diagnosed can be ascribed to smoking.
Less than 90% of sufferers will be alive 5-years after diagnosis.
The north of the U. K. seems to suffer from the highest rate of clinically diagnosed cases, whereas the most affordable rates are to be seen in the east, south-east, and the south-west of the.

In Scotland, clinically diagnosed cases among women have almost doubled during the past 40 years.
Realization: Lung cancer still remains to be one of the biggest challenges of the 21st Century - with the lack of awareness (or understanding) to the damages that smoking can do to the individual, and the economic/social problems that many individuals in the U. K. suffer - still considered to be the two major reasons in back of this new increase in cancer related disease.

These types of existing figures can only be a stark prompt as to the problems that remain in existence, and the up-hill battle that still remains in combating the disease. Smoking still remains to be the Little. 1 self-inflicted DEATH PHRASE in the U. P., and the world as a whole.


Philip is a Freelance Writer, Creator, and Owner of Tumor Cry. He was given birth to in Oxfordshire, England; however, today he lives in Mexico where he has been based for many years authoring cancer and other health-related issues.