Lung cancer
Lung cancer is the second most common cancer in the UK and each year more than 38,000 people are diagnosed with the disease.
Smoking causes around nine out of ten cases of lung cancer.The longer a person smokes, the greater their risk of getting the disease. Quitting smoking dramatically reduces the risk of lung cancer.
Cancer Research UK is one of the major funders of lung cancer research in the UK, working to prevent, diagnose and treat the disease. We also influence government policy on tobacco and health with the aim of preventing lung cancer and other life-threatening diseases. We played a key role in helping to secure smoke-free legislation for workplaces and enclosed public places across the UK.
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- Briefings - tobacco control
- Commonly diagnosed cancers worldwide
- Dr Dean Fennell
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- Lung Cancer and Smoking statistics
- Lung Cancer molecular biology and genetics
- Lung Cancer risk factors
- Lung Cancer survival statistics
- Lung cancer - incidence projections to 2024
- Lung cancer and smoking statistics - Key Facts
- Lung cancer research
- Our progress and achievements from 1902 to 1959
- Our progress and achievements in the 1990s
- Prof David Balfour
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- September 2009 podcast transcript
- Smokefree England
- UK Lung Cancer incidence statistics
- UK Lung Cancer mortality statistics
Browse news and press releases about Lung cancer
- 'Baby boom' carpenters at greatest risk of developing asbestos related cancer
- 'Inflammation genes' shed light on lung cancer development
- 99% of smokers respecting ban but many unaware of lung cancer link
- Almost half of lung cancer patients go back to cigarettes
- Avastin shows promise in lung cancer trial
- Blood test clue for lung cancer treatment
- Britain's 100 year war against cancer
- Cancer Research UK calls for reconsideration of Alimta decision
- Cautious welcome for lung cancer 'breath test'
- Cigarette poisons wipe out anti-ageing gene
- Expert calls for increase in lung cancer surgery
- Experts predict 20 per cent drop in lung cancer rate
- Gene test could reveal lung cancer survival
- Giving stop smoking advice with smear tests could save extra lives
- IARC finds more cancers linked to tobacco and alcohol
- Local researchers look to improve treatment for lung cancer patients
- Lung cancer death rates at 30-year low for women under 70
- Lung cancer experts call for improvements in NHS care
- Lung cancer rates 50 per cent higher in the west of Scotland
- Lung cancer screening effective for high-risk groups, says US group
- Lung cancer: Exercise risk reduction 'marginal' compared to quitting
- Lung disease undiagnosed in four out of five
- Majority of male cancer deaths linked to smoking, say US scientists
- Milk thistle shows early promise against lung cancer
- Missing molecule involved in lung cancer
- NCRI calls for greater lung cancer funding
- NICE recommends new lung cancer drug
- New chemotherapy 'cures' early testicular cancer
- New hope for ways to overcome drug resistance in lung cancer
- Non-smoker lung cancer rates higher than previously thought
- Possible lung cancer test 'has potential' says Cancer Research UK
- Report highlights lung cancer service inequalities
- Researchers launch lung cancer screening trial
- Scientists 'home in' on lung cancer genes that increase smokers' risk
- Scientists discover stem cell clue to lung cancer development
- Scientists find more evidence for inherited lung cancer risk
- Scientists identify genetic markers for aggressive lung cancer
- Scientists to study feasibility of lung cancer screening
- Scientists use oral tissue to detect damage to the lungs caused by smoking
- Scottish figures expose deprivation role in cancer
- Smoking and lung cancer: half of British workforce worried by workplace smoking
- Tobacco changes brain in same way as hard drugs
- Triple risk for smokers with faulty gene
- UK scientists identify gene that protects against lung cancer
- US study suggests HRT may make lung cancer more deadly
- Workplace secondhand smoke exposure doubles cancer risk
- 'Impressive' new lung cancer drug revealed
- 20 pence on a pack of cigarettes
- Allen Carr diagnosed with lung cancer
- Aspirin may reduce the risk of lung cancer in women
- Blood protein might indicate early-stage lung cancer
- Blood test could provide early lung cancer diagnosis say scientists
- Cancer Research UK and AstraZeneca to accelerate biomarker research
- Cancer Research UK scientist clinches two Wellcome Image Awards
- Cautious welcome for lung screening trial results
- Ex-smokers 'still more susceptible to lung cancer'
- Experts call for better indoor radon control
- Gene fault leads to 'much nastier' lung cancer
- Genetic test could personalise lung cancer treatment say doctors
- Growing ageing population drives global cancer rise
- Jury still out over vitamin E supplements and increased lung cancer risk
- Lung cancer blood test 'at an early stage'
- Lung cancer deaths in the UK set to tumble
- Lung cancer genetic factors revealed
- Lung cancer screening benefits uncertain say scientists
- Lung cancer vaccine enters large-scale clinical trial
- Lung cancer: final phase of 'encouraging' thalidomide trial to launch
- Major new trial brings smarter approach to lung cancer
- Mesothelioma deaths to peak by 2015
- Minimally-invasive biopsy approach may accurately determine lung cancer stage
- More evidence that genes increase a smokers' risk of lung cancer
- NICE confirms Tarceva ruling
- NICE to reconsider Alimta ruling
- New drug boost for lung cancer sufferers
- New treatment gives boost to lung cancer patients
- North on wrong side of North-South lung cancer divide
- Radon gas in ordinary homes increases lung cancer risk, particularly for smokers
- Report shows UK lung cancer care improving, but more needs to be done
- Researchers link secondhand smoke exposure to decreased lung cancer survival
- Scientists decode cancer's secret signals
- Scientists find gene that protects against lung cancer
- Scientists find new link between tobacco chemical and cancer
- Scientists pave the way for lung cancer blood test
- Scientists uncover lung cancer's survival secrets
- Scottish bars healthier since the smoking ban
- Scottish regulator approves new lung cancer drug
- Three new lung cancer-causing genes discovered
- Trials of AS1404 for lung cancer show encouraging results
- UK discovery points to early warning lung cancer signs
- US lung cancer screening result "encouraging" says Cancer Research UK
- Women 'more vulnerable to tobacco carcinogens than men'
- Young scots ‘most proud’ to be smoke-free as iconic image unveiled
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