We need your help to raise awareness that anyone can get lung cancer!
All You Need Is Lungs is a joint campaign from ALK Positive UK, EGFR+ Lung Cancer UK and the Ruth Strauss Foundation. Our message is simple: anyone can get lung cancer. All you need is lungs.
This year, for our fourth Lung Cancer Awareness Month, we’ve caught up with the volunteers who have shared their stories with us since 2023. Their updates show what life with lung cancer can look like now, and we remember the volunteers we’ve lost along the way.
Help us raise awareness this November
How to help:
Every story on our website has its own link, so you can copy and paste it straight into Facebook, LinkedIn, X, Bluesky or Instagram.
You can also download our ready-to-post graphics below and use the suggested caption. Please use #AllYouNeedIsLungs, and like, share and comment on our posts throughout November.
Lung cancer can look like this.
Anyone with lungs can get lung cancer. Around 15% of people diagnosed with lung cancer in the UK have never smoked, and symptoms can easily be put down to something else.
Know the symptoms: a cough that won’t go away, breathlessness, fatigue, a hoarse voice, chest, shoulder or back pain, unexplained weight loss and chest infections that keep coming back. If symptoms persist and there’s no clear reason, speak to your GP and ask for a chest X-ray.
Read real stories from people living with lung cancer at allyouneedislungs.org.uk
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Share these key facts about lung cancer in the UK
Around 50,200 people are diagnosed with lung cancer in the UK each year. That’s almost 140 people every day.
Lung cancer is the third most common cancer in the UK and the leading cause of cancer death, with around 32,800 deaths a year.
Around 15% of people diagnosed with lung cancer in the UK have never smoked.
If it were counted as a separate disease, lung cancer in people who have never smoked would be the eighth most common cancer in the UK.
Fewer than 1 in 5 people diagnosed with lung cancer survive for five years or more.
Almost 65% of people diagnosed at stage 1 survive for at least five years, compared with around 5% of people diagnosed at stage 4.
In 2024, 30.2% of people with lung cancer were diagnosed after an emergency admission to hospital.
Sources: Cancer Research UK; Khan et al., BJC Reports (2023); National Lung Cancer Audit State of the Nation Report 2026
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