New research suggests that lung cancer is being diagnosed more often in younger and middle-aged women than in men their age.
Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content.A new study found that women ages 35 to 54 are experiencing higher rates of new lung cancer cases than men in that age group.
Lung cancer is the second most common cancer for both men and women and in 2023, the American Cancer Society estimates that 117,550 men and 120,790 women will be diagnosed with a new case of lung cancer. Looking closer, among people ages 50 to 54, the lung cancer incidence rate per 100,000 person-years decreased by 44% for men, while it only decreased by 20% for women.
“In general, people with lung cancer who have never smoked cigarettes before tend to have higher incidence of having mutations associated with their lung cancer,” she said. “Again, we don’t know exactly the reasons for that.” Beyond this, however, there aren’t a ton of warning signs to look out for, and the disease seems to present similarly in both men and women, Shum said.
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