released by Cancer Research UK.
It says more than 18,000 UK women were diagnosedwith lung cancer in
2009, compared with fewer than 8,000 in 1975.
Cases of lung cancer reflect smoking rates two to threedecades
earlier, as more than 80% of cases are linked to tobacco.
Lung cancer is still more common in men, with more than 23,000 cases
in 2009, but rates have been falling fast.
That means lung cancer incidence is now just under59 per 100,000 UK
men compared with 110 in 1975.
The comparable figure for women was 39 in every 100,000 women in 2009
- but 22 in 1975.
Wartime peak
Smoking rates for women in Britain were highest during the 1960s, with
around 45% of women smoking, but that has now fallen to around 20%.
The teenage girls and young women we see around us smoking todayare
the lung cancer statistics of the future"
Dr John Moore-Gillon
British Lung Foundation
Male smoking rates peakedat 65% during WWII, downnow to 22%. The lung
cancer rate in men peaked three decades later/
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