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Comparison of lung and breast cancer deaths in women in Scotland

  Lung cancer

Breast cancer

2009 1,951 1,002
2008 1,966 1,043
2007 1,876 1,062
2006 1,900 1,108
2005 1,814 1,144
2004 1,772 1,082
2003 1,707 1,138
2002 1,722 1,105
2001 1,638 1,143
2000 1,723 1,116
1999 1,656 1,129

Source: General Register Office (Scotland) Vital events reference tables [online] Available from:  www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/statistics/publications-and-data/vital-events/index.html [accessed 10 September 2010]

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