Lung cancer more deadly than breast

Lung cancer more deadly than breast

Experts estimate that in about two years, lung cancer cause more deaths among European women than breast cancer , making it the deadliest for the female population of this continent neoplasia.

Data obtained from the latest analysis by specialists of the Department of Epidemiology at the Mario Negri Institute in Milan, Italy, on the estimates of mortality from cancer in Europe, and that was just released in 'Annal of Oncology'.

The study has provided cancer will evolve in the coming years in 27 countries of the European Union. According to this work, although death rates from the disease have experienced a reduction of 6% in men and 4% in women, the case of lung cancer does not respond to these statistics, and their mortality rates have increased 7% since 2009. In fact, each year die from over 170,000 people in Europe.

Mortality from lung cancer increases among women, and is estimated to cause more deaths than breast cancer 2015

The authors also warn that the mortality from lung cancer is increasing especially among women, and in 2015 this tumor cause more deaths than breast. Currently, Poland and the United Kingdom with 21.2 and 17.5 deaths per 100,000 women-are the two countries where more women die from this cause among all evaluated in the study.

In Spain the situation is not as worrying as the Spanish began smoking later, but experts worry that we are the country with the highest number of teenage smokers, which could cause the number of affected lung cancer will increase by few years.