Among American women, the age-adjusted death rates for five types of cancer have decreased since the 1930s. The largest decline has been in stomach cancer, which has dropped from 35.2 deaths per 100,000 women in 1930 to 2.3 deaths in 2011 — or a decline of 93.5%. Stomach cancer death rates have declined similarly for men, dropping 90.5% since 1930.
The lung and bronchus cancer death rates have increased greatly for both men and women over the last 80 years. Since 1930, the death rate has risen 1326% and 1251%, respectively, among women and men. However, the lung/bronchus cancer death rate peaked in 1990 for men and has declined by 36% since then. The female death rate peaked after it did for men because cigarette use increased among women decades after it did for men. So we're only starting to see the decline in deaths for women due to lung cancer.