Lung cancer is the UK’s third most common cancer, and the biggest cancer killer. Around 48,500 people are diagnosed each year* and it causes nearly 35,000 deaths. It’s more common as you get older – nearly half (45%) of people diagnosed are 75 or over. And until now, more men than women have been diagnosed but that’s about to change, according to research by Cancer Research UK.
The charity predicts that there will be 27,332 cases in women and 27,172 in men this
