FACTS: Women & Lung Cancer

• Lung cancer kills more women than any other cancer – nearly 200 women each day. Most die within a year of diagnosis.
• Women who have never smoked appear to be at greater risk for developing lung cancer than men who have never smoked.
• Women tend to develop lung cancer at younger ages than men.
• Women are more likely than men to be diagnosed in early stages of lung cancer.
• Women are likely to live longer than men after treatment for the disease.

"There is accumulating evidence that hormonal factors and genetic markers influence lung cancer."

"There is no widely accepted screening test for lung cancer."

"Lung cancer takes more lives each year than breast, cervical and prostate cancers combined."

"The stigma attached to lung cancer contributes to underfunding of research for the disease."

Information provided by:

Mary Horrigan Connors Center
For Women’s Health and Gender Biology