Former smokers just as likely to face lung cancer

Ex-smokers are just as likely to develop lung cancer in later life as those who fail to stub out the habit.

The finding has been made as part of a 10-year audit of cancer cases at one of Ireland’s leading cancer centres of excellence.

The research at Dublin’s St James’s Hospital, the first single-facility audit of its kind in this country, found that survival rates are significantly improving for a multitude of cancers.