Lung cancer an increasingly female disease - report
Writing in the introduction to the report, National Cancer Registry director Dr Harry Comber revealed the incidence of lung cancer among women is increasing by as much as 3% every year.
Increases in other cancers are also expected to follow the same trend showing a marked increase in occurrence in women when compared to men, said Dr Comber. “From being a predominantly male disease for the past 50 years, lung cancer will be a predominantly female disease by 2020. Increases in other cancers will follow the same trend.”
