Lung cancer: the facts

The big picture

Lung cancer has been the most common cancer in the world for several decades, accounting for

of all cancer deaths¹

Worldwide, three people die from lung cancer every minute²

This is more per year than breast, colorectal and prostate cancer combined³

Diagnosis, staging & treatment ⁴,⁵

more than 2/3

of patients are diagnosed with lung cancer at a later stage when their survival chances are lower

Early-stage lung cancer - key facts

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Red: Survival %

Locally advanced lung cancer - key facts

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Advanced lung cancer - key facts

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During later stages of lung cancer systemic treatments are key. Of these systemic treatments, targeted therapies e.g. monoclonal antibodies have demonstrated survival benefits for patients

References

Cancer Research UK.[Accessed May 2016]
WHO.Calculation by Roche - 1.59 million deaths per year / 365 days – 4,356 deaths per day / 24 hours = 181 deaths per hour / 60 minutes = 3 deaths per minute
GLOBOCAN. http://globocan.iarc.fr/Pages/fact_sheets_cancer.aspx. [Accessed December 2016]
Goldstraw et al. The IASLC Lung Cancer Staging Project: Proposals for the Revision of the TNM Stage Groupings in the Forthcoming (Seventh)
Edition of the TNM Classification of Malignant Tumours. Journal of Thoracic Oncology 2007; 2: 706_714
National Cancer Institute. SEER Cancer Statistics Review 1975-2013 - Lung cancer. Available at:. [Accessed December 2016]

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