Lung cancer has overtaken breast cancer as the most lethal form of the disease for women in the UK, research has shown.
Scientists predict that, by the middle of the decade, it will be the main cause of women’s cancer death in Europe.
The rise in cases may be due to young women taking up smoking in the late 1960s and 1970s, researchers said.
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