Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death for both men and women.
There were more than 164,000 new cases of lung cancer in 2000. About 157,000 people will die of lung cancer this year. More people die of lung cancer than of colon, breast and prostate cancers combined. The average age of people found to have lung cancer is 60. The five-year survival rate for all stages of lung cancer combined was 14 percent in 1995.