TY - CHAP
T1 - Lung cancer prevention
AU - Hakim, Iman
AU - Garland, Linda
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by grants RO1-CA87546 (ED) and RO1-CA62275 (ED) from the National Institutes of Health, and by grant RPG-90-019-10-DDC (ED) from the American Cancer Society. Dr. Dragnev was supported in part by the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Young Investigator Award. This work was supported in part by the Oracle Giving Fund and by the Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation.
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - Lung cancer continues to exact a huge toll on the health status of Americans and peopie worldwide. In the United States (U.S.), the number of new lung cancer cases diagnosed per year has reached epidemic proportions. In 2004, an estimated 173,770 new cases of lung cancer were diagnosed, representing 12.7% of the 1,368,030 new cases of all cancers diagnosed in 2004 (Jemal, Ti- wan et al. 2004). While prostate cancer and breast cancer lead new cancer cases in American men and women respectively in 2004, lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer-related death for both men and women, with an estimated 160,440 of all 563,700 cancer deaths, or 28.5%, attributable to lung cancer. While once thought to be mainly a man's disease, lung cancer is now represented in a nearly equal fashion between the sexes, with women diagnosed with lung cancer in 2004 representing a full 46% of all new cases (Jemal, Tiwari et al. 2004).
AB - Lung cancer continues to exact a huge toll on the health status of Americans and peopie worldwide. In the United States (U.S.), the number of new lung cancer cases diagnosed per year has reached epidemic proportions. In 2004, an estimated 173,770 new cases of lung cancer were diagnosed, representing 12.7% of the 1,368,030 new cases of all cancers diagnosed in 2004 (Jemal, Ti- wan et al. 2004). While prostate cancer and breast cancer lead new cancer cases in American men and women respectively in 2004, lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer-related death for both men and women, with an estimated 160,440 of all 563,700 cancer deaths, or 28.5%, attributable to lung cancer. While once thought to be mainly a man's disease, lung cancer is now represented in a nearly equal fashion between the sexes, with women diagnosed with lung cancer in 2004 representing a full 46% of all new cases (Jemal, Tiwari et al. 2004).
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U2 - 10.1007/3-540-26337-3_11
DO - 10.1007/3-540-26337-3_11
M3 - Chapter
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SN - 3540242120
SN - 9783540242123
SP - 223
EP - 254
BT - Fundamentals of Cancer Prevention
PB - Springer Berlin Heidelberg
ER -