Tag: Lung disease
European COPD, lung cancer cases expected to rise, report says
September 9, 2013HME News Staff
LAUSANNE, Switzerland - Rates of COPD and lung cancer are expected to rise across Europe in the next two decades, the European Respiratory Society said in a report released Sept. 5. Lung diseases like infections, COPD, tuberculosis and cancer already cause one in 10 European deaths, news organizations say, but that number will grow as more people develop lung disease as a result of smoking. The European Lung White Book calls smoking the continent's worst health hazard and notes that although smoking...