How Many People Die Per Year From Lung Cancer?

Lung cancer is caused by an uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells in lung tissue. Primary lung cancer has its origin in the lung itself, whereas metastatic lung cancer originates in some other organ and spreads to the lungs. Lung cancer can also be defined as a malignant tumour on the lungs. Lung cancer is the most dangerous and lethal among all cancers affecting humans.

It is estimated that up to 3 million deaths are caused by lung cancer every year. Only ten percent of patients diagnosed with lung cancer are expected to survive beyond a period of five years. In America alone, about 163,500 patients die of lung cancer a year, making it the biggest killer among all illnesses.

There is growing trend of more women being diagnosed of lung cancer compared to men. This is because the ratio of female to male smokers is rising rapidly. More women are estimated to die of lung cancer than any other type of cancer.

World Population 2008
            6,697,254,041
Lung Cancer Deaths per year
        3,000,000
  Odds of getting lung cancer per year
        0.04479448%
Odds of Lung cancer death in 80 years
  3.58355825%
Estimated World Population in 1700
  600,000,000
Deaths Up till 1700 attributed to religious crusades
  23,500,000
Odds that you will be killed by a Christian
  3.91666667%
Difference between the two…..
  0.33310841%
So.. You are  0.3331084% more likely to die at the hands of a Christian than of lung cancer
  over an 80 year period  ;-D

5,000,000 a year but increasing at an alarming rate every year..

Each year, a staggering 440,000 people die in the US from tobacco use

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Half of Africans

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Hi. I am in debate club and am researching this. Thanks for the help and hopefully that number will be reduced by the Wisconsin state wide smoking ban. Yippee! By the way, 2nd and 3rd hand smoke and bad, too.

Three  quater of austrila that  die of lung cancer per year

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