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Lung cancer death rate increasing amongst Scottish women

New figures have revealed that more women are dying from lung cancer, bucking the downward trend for death rates from other cancers.

Over the ten years to 2008, lung cancer deaths increased by more than 11% among women but went down by 21% in men. Bowel cancer death rates among both men and women fell by 16% and breast cancer deaths in women fell by 13%.

Prostate cancer deaths were down by 12%.