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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
Lung cancer is the leading cause of
cancer death in the United States, killing more than 135,000 people
per year.
In 1988, the U.S. EPA estimate of
deaths due to radon - induced
lung cancer was 21,000
per year.
In 2004, the World Health Organization estimated that about one million
deaths per year are caused by air pollution, and several epidemiological studies have linked air pollution to the development of cardiovascular and respiratory illnesses, including
lung cancer.
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.