This site is intended for healthcare professionals

Go to /sign-in page

You can view 5 more pages before signing in

Epidemiology

Last reviewed dd mmm yyyy. Last edited dd mmm yyyy

Authoring team

Relative risk of death from bronchial carcinoma is related to the number of cigarettes smoked per day:

  • non-smokers: 0.07 lung cancer deaths/year/1000
  • 1-14 cig/day: 0.78 lung cancer deaths/year/1000
  • 14-24 cig/day: 1.27 lung cancer deaths/year/1000
  • > 24 cig/day: 2.51 lung cancer deaths/year/1000

The male:female ratio is 7:1; this ratio is decreasing as the incidence of bronchial carcinoma in females is increasing.

The peak incidence of bronchial carcinoma is in the sixth decade in males and in the seventh decade in females.

Bronchial carcinoma is rare before the age of 25 years.

More than 90% of patients are symptomatic at the time of diagnosis (1).

  1. (1) Referral Guidelines for Suspected Cancer (April 2000). NHS Executive.

Related pages

Create an account to add page annotations

Annotations allow you to add information to this page that would be handy to have on hand during a consultation. E.g. a website or number. This information will always show when you visit this page.