Lung cancer kills more women in Canada than in other OECD countries

In Canada, 47 out of 100,000 women die of lung cancer every year—almost double the average rate of 26.5 per 100,000 among member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

A new report by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) notes that this may be related to the fact that the percentage of Canadian women who smoked in the 1980s was more than double that of today, and a lag time of up to 30 years exists between a reduction in smoking rates and a decline in lung cancer rates. Read more here.