Lung Cancer Factoids

In searching for a thoracic oncologist, Tony came upon some interesting info on lung cancer:
• More people die of lung cancer worldwide than any other cancer
• Three times more men die of lung cancer than prostate cancer
• Two times as many women die of lung cancer than breast cancer (and yet I think about all the publicity breast cancer gets, compared to lung cancer)
• People with lung cancer who have never smoked are three times more likely to be female than male
• It is a modern epidemic among women in part because women get lung cancer after smoking fewer cigarettes for fewer years than men (I read somewhere that estrogen may be the culprit, but they don't really know yet)

The specialist said lung cancer now “ends the life of vital, active, healthy people.” Sound familiar?