| The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| 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%. |
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