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Content Inside: 54 RESPIRATORY DISEASE NEOPLASTIC DISEASE LUNG CANCER I EPIDEMIOLOGY Although lung cancer is a malignancy of increasing age, with 70% of cases occurring in over 65-year-olds, it represents a significant socio-medical burden. In the developed world it has become the commonest cause of cancer death in men. In the UK it represents 1 in 3 cancer deaths and 25% of cancer registrations. In women it is the most rapidly rising cause of cancer mortality and is now second only to breast cancer. In Scotland it even exceeds breast cancer mortality, with lung cancer causing annually the loss of over 51 500 life-years compared with 21 000 life-years for breast cancer. reproduction may continue with this loss of normal cellular growth and differentiation mechanisms. This results in a macroscopic tumour (Fig. 1). Hence, the substantial rise in lung cancer that we are still seeing reflects the widespread uptake of cigarette smoking earlier in the last
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Content Inside: 54 RESPIRATORY DISEASE NEOPLASTIC DISEASE LUNG CANCER I EPIDEMIOLOGY Although lung cancer is a malignancy of increasing age, with 70% of cases occurring in over 65-year-olds, it represents a significant socio-medical burden. In the developed world it has become the commonest cause of cancer death in men. In the UK it represents 1 in 3 cancer deaths and 25% of cancer registrations. In women it is the most rapidly rising cause of cancer mortality and is now second only to breast cancer. In Scotland it even exceeds breast cancer mortality, with lung cancer causing annually the loss of over 51 500 life-years compared with 21 000 life-years for breast cancer. reproduction may continue with this loss of normal cellular growth and differentiation mechanisms. This results in a macroscopic tumour (Fig. 1). Hence, the substantial rise in lung cancer that we are still seeing reflects the widespread uptake of cigarette smoking earlier in the last
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