According to the most recent lung cancer statistics from the World Health Organisation/International Agency for Research on Cancer, globally, 2.2 million people had lung cancer in 2020, and 1.8 million passed away from it.
In 2022, the American Cancer Society predicted that there would be 236,740 new cases of lung cancer identified and 130,180 lung cancer-related deaths, making it the second most common cancer (apart from skin cancer) in both men and women in the US.
