New Zealand women under the age of forty five have been developing lung cancer at twice the rate of men getting it. Dr Neil Graham,of Tauranga said that women could change it so that they are the major sufferers of lung cancer. About 85 percent of Maori women aged between eighteen and twenty five were smokers and a lot of the people that started smoking still do smoke at the age that they are now. The study showed that lung cancer cases in patients aged between 50 and younger diagnosed in 1987 and 1988 in
the Bay of Plenty, Waikato and cases represented about ten percent of all lung cancer in the region for over two years. Forty of the people in the group were females. Dr Graham said that the subgroup of women out numberd the men two to one. Only three of the 73 sufferers- 93 percent of whom smoked at the time of diagnosis-were alive two years later. Lately the males out numbered the women. In this study it shows that women could very well take over the men
