Lung cancer statistics do not give us a very rosy picture. Lung cancer is the most fatal among all cancers causing the most number of deaths. This is the case irrespective of whether they are men and women. In the year 2005, the number of deaths caused by lung cancer is more than breast, prostate and colon cancer combined. In that year, 107,416 men and 89,271 women were diagnosed with lung cancer and out of these cases 90,139 men and 69,078 women found it to be fatal.
Lung cancer is the second most common cancer among men in the United States irrespective of whether they were Asian/pacific islander, American Indian/Alaska native, Black, Hispanic or White.
In the case of women, it is the second most common cancer among American Indian/Alaska Native, Black and White and the third most common one amongst Asian/pacific islander and Hispanic women.

