LUNG CANCER STATISTICS 2021

Lung Cancer rates in Israel: Smoking remains top risk despite decline in mortality

In 2021, Israel saw 2,907 new cases of lung cancer, with a significant disparity between men and women. Men accounted for 60.3 per cent of the diagnoses, while women made up 39.7 per cent. Lung cancer claimed the lives of 1,875 patients that year.