Women's lung cancer rates up by 22%

Lung cancer rates among UK women have risen by more than 20% over the past two decades, new figures show Lung cancer rates for British women have risen more than a fifth in the last two decades with a record 20,000-plus cases now being diagnosed each year, new figures have shown. The soaring number of victims is a legacy of the 1970s, when women in the UK were most likely to smoke.