Cancer in France nearly doubles while cancer deaths in France fall 25% since 1980
February 23rd, 2008
But while mortality from lung cancer decreased in men in France, it is gaining ground “in a worrying way” among French women (+4.2% every year since 2000), as more French women continue to smoke or even take up smoking. Many women in France smoke as an aid to dieting and resist quitting for fear they will gain weight. Lung cancer has become the third the most common cancer among women in France, after breast and colo-rectal cancer, overtaking cancer of the uterus, which fell to fourth place.