Promoting a more patient centred approach to lung cancer

The average age of diagnosis of lung cancer is a little over 70 years.3 Historically men have been more frequently affected by the disease but over the last 30 years there has been a steady decline in incidence in the male population. However, in women, lung cancer is increasing and has overtaken breast cancer as a cause of death in most parts of the UK3,4 and the male to female ratio is now 1.28:15.5 The majority of lung cancer cases are among smokers (over 80%)6€”although there is evidence that as many as one in eight of all lung cancer deaths