The number of women in Ireland with lung cancer may “substantially outnumber” male cases in the coming years with diagnoses of the disease forecast to double over the next two decades, the Irish Cancer Society has warned. More than 2,500 Irish people are diagnosed with lung cancer every year and the majority of people who get the disease are aged over 50. Researchers have linked as many as nine out of 10 lung cancer cases to smoking. Lung cancer is now the main cause of cancer deaths among women, outnumbering those linked to breast cancer. Aoife McNamara of the Irish Cancer Society described the projected rise in lung cancer cases as alarming and called on the public to pay attention to any symptoms such as difficulty breathing, wheezing of a persistent cough.

Source: The Irish Times January 06, 2019 20:15 UTC