Chapter 7 Lung cancer

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A decrease in the incidence of lung cancer in men began in the late 1980's, and

between 1990 and 1996, incidence rates decreased by 2.6% per year. Rates in

women are stabilizing, and have begun to decline in women ages 40 to 59. Estimated

new lung cancer cases for the year 2000 are 164,100, with a total of 156,900 deaths.

In 2000, lung cancer will account for 31% of all cancer deaths in men (compared to

11% for prostate and 10% for colon cancer), and 25% of all cancer deaths in women

(ahead of 15% for breast cancer and 11% for colon cancer). The 5-year lung cancer

survival rate was 14% for 1989-1995.

CA-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, January-February 2000, pp. 9-16

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The lung cancer death rate for men was 4.9 per 100,000 in 1930; in 1990 the rate had

increased to 75.6 per 100,000.

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, November 5, 1999, p. 986

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Deaths from lung cancer in the United States increased from less than 400 cases

recorded in 1900 to 4000 deaths in 1935, 11,000 in 1945, 36,000 in 1960, and

140,000 deaths a year by the mid-1980's.

Daedalus 119: 161, 1990

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U.S. lung cancer rates increased 11-fold between 1940 and the 1980's.

Curbing the Epidemic, p. 23.

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The proportion of widowhood attributable to lung cancer is 10%.

John Slade, M.D.

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