Women’s lung cancer rate catching up with men’s

Recently a research shows that women patients with lung cancer dramatic increase in UK, as they fail to heed no-smoking message. Women have been urged to take anti-smoking messages more seriously.

Alexander Ives and Dr Julia Verne, of the NHS’s South West Public Health Observatory, found that: “Lung cancer incidence for females increased significantly from 1985-87 (32.3 per 100,000) to 2004-06 (35.4 per 100,000)”, a 10% rise. While the recent rate for men in England as 60 per 100,000. They said they identify women in England diagnosed with the disease between 1985 and 2006 from data of the UK Association of Cancer Registries.

Traditionally, Lung cancer of male are much more than women, but numbers of women being diagnosed are growing and it become the UK’s biggest cancer killer. The trend now has alarmed us, we should be urging female smokers to quit and calling on the NHS to do more to warn women of the dangerous habit. Women need to take on board that lung cancer is not a disease of men, it’s a disease of smokers, and either not take up smoking in the first place or quit cigarettes as a matter of urgency.

Lung cancer claims more Britons’ lives than any other form of the disease. It is reported that every day about 108 people are diagnosed with it, and of those 95 die. In the 1950s men diagnosed with lung cancer outnumbered women by six to one.

The Office of National Statistics released data last week, it showed that cancers are now the commonest cause of death in women, accounting for 159 deaths per 100,000 annually. It means Scotland has the UK’s highest rates of lung cancer, while cancer generally claims 181 lives per 100,000 women north of the border.

Except smoking, non-smoking cancers is increased too. It’s well known that long-term exposure to tobacco smoke is also the major causes of lung cancer. Air pollution is an other cause.