Cancer Information

Lung cancer accounts for 13.4% of new cancer casesand is the most common cause of cancer mortality, is the most common in the developed world. In Spain, lung cancer is the cause of death of 8.3% of the Spanish (1 in 12 men die from lung cancer in Spain) and 1.3% of women. More people die due to lung cancer than breast cancer, colon and prostate cancers combined. Specifically in our country are diagnosed 19,000 new cases of lung cancer each year.

The number of men who die of this cancer are declining in North America because there are more quitters.
The American woman has grown since 1950, mortality for this cancer, by 550%. This proportion is lower in Spain because she belatedly started smoking more generally.

In the UK and the U.S., lung cancer causes more deaths than breast cancer since 1987. In North America, 150,000 women die each year from diseases related to snuff, of these 41,000, die from lung cancer and 10,000 for other cancers. This year there will be about 169,000 new cases of lung cancer deaths.

The survival rate at one year (time during which no disease) in 1995, is 41%. This percentage fell to 14% when it comes to five-year survival. This rate increases to 42% if the cancer is detected early.

90% of people with this disease are smokers, while only 5-10% of smokers with cancer, your chances of developing the disease are fifteen times higher than in nonsmokers.

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