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Scotland: More women dying of lung cancer despite dramatic fall in the number of men with the disease
More Scottish women are dying of lung cancer despite a dramatic fall in the number of men with the disease.
Figures released yesterday show that female lung cancer deaths have gone up by more than 6 per cent in the past decade.
Overall cancer deaths have fallen by 8 per cent and there has been a drop of almost a quarter in the number of male lung cancer victims.
The statistics suggest women smokers are falling behind men in heeding the warnings about the dangers of tobacco. Yesterdays NHS figures show that lung cancer was the most common killer of all cancers in Scotland last year, with 2,162 men and 1,900 women dying from the illness.
Women in Scotland are twice as likely to develop lung cancer than those in the rest of Britain, with more females north of the Border smoking regularly
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