Sentences with phrase «lung cancer death rates»

And while decreasing lung cancer death rates are encouraging, many countries have yet to implement the kinds of comprehensive tobacco control measures that have led to drops in other countries.»

In women, breast and colorectal cancer death rates will fall by 9 % and 7 % respectively, but lung cancer death rates will rise by 8 %.

However, the 2015 predictions confirm our projections on long - term trends made two years ago that lung cancer death rates would overtake breast cancer in women around 2015.»

These rates are more than double those in Spain, which has a lung cancer death rate among women of just over eight per 100,000.

Not exact matches

For instance, among the six largest countries, although the actual numbers of female deaths from lung cancer will still be the highest in the UK in 2016 than in the other large countries (at 16,400), the rate per 100,000 women has started to fall (from 20.15 per 100,000 in 2013 to 19.37 predicted in 2016), while death rates are still rising in the other countries.

In women, death rates from breast and colorectal cancer will fall by 8 % and 7 % respectively, but lung and pancreatic cancer rates will rise by 5 % and 4 %; in 2016 the death rates from lung cancer in Europe will be 14.4 per 100,000 women (compared to 13.51 in 2011) and 5.6 per 100,000 for pancreatic cancer (compared to 5.39 in 2011).

In men, death rates from lung, colorectal and prostate cancer are predicted to fall by 11 %, 5 % and 8 % respectively since 2011.

The overall death rate for lung cancer among women is being driven by women in the UK and Poland, with predicted rates of 21 and 17 per 100,000 in the UK and Poland respectively.

The study by researchers in Italy and Switzerland predicts that although the actual number of deaths from all cancers in the European Union will continue to rise due to growing populations and numbers of elderly people, the rate of cancer deaths will continue to decline overall, with some notable exceptions: lung cancer in women and pancreatic cancer in both sexes.

In women, the predicted age standardised rate of deaths from lung cancer will increase by 9 % from 2009 to 14.24 per 100,000 of the population, while the death rates from breast cancer are predicted to be 14.22 per 100,000, which represents a fall of 10.2 % since 2009.

Professor La Vecchia said: «There is a moderate fall in deaths rates in female lung cancer in the UK, although UK rates are still higher than in other EU countries, except Denmark, as British women started to smoke earlier.

Lung cancer causes the most cancer - related deaths in the United States, and researchers are searching for new cellular targets to increase survival rates.

Death rates from lung cancer in women also outstripped those in men — 4.3 deaths per 100 000 in females and 2.4 per 100 000 in males.

While lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death and the second most commonly diagnosed cancer in both men and women, a low survival rate makes it the number eight cancer site represented among survivors.

However, rates continue to increase among older women in many countries, indicating a need for more concentrated efforts to initiate or expand comprehensive tobacco control programs across the globe to curtail future tobacco - related lung cancer deaths.

Life tables were used to model five year survival for early stage non-small cell lung cancer and limited stage small cell lung cancer, using death rates for continuing smokers and quitters obtained from this review.

To see the problems of Hanushek's logic, consider the following true statistics: between 1960 and 2000 the rate of cigarette smoking for females decreased by more than 30 percent while the rate of deaths by lung cancer increased by more than 50 percent over the same time period.

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In Poland, 6,343 women will die from lung cancer this year compared to 5,643 in 2007, and this represents an increase in the death rate from 15.53 per 100,000 women to 16.60 in 2011.

The number of women who will die from lung cancer this year in the UK is 15,632 (compared to 14,900 in 2007); this represents a slight drop in the death rate from 20.57 per 100,000 women in 2007 to 20.33 in 2011.