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Mon 12 Dec 2002Ireland faces 'lung cancer epidemic in women'Almost as many women are dying from lung cancer as breast cancer, yet services for patients with tumours of the lung are lagging well behind those for other cancers, a major conference has heard.Speaking at the All Ireland Lung Cancer Conference, which was held in Adare, Co Limerick, at the weekend, Prof Des Carney, consultant medical oncologist at the Mater hospital, Dublin, said one in four cancer deaths in women were from lung cancer.