Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, 1975–2005, Featuring Trends in Lung Cancer, Tobacco Use, and Tobacco Control

Abstract

Although the decrease in overall cancer incidence and death rates is encouraging, large state and regional differences in lung cancer trends among women underscore the need to maintain and strengthen many state tobacco control programs.

Keywords

Lung cancerTobacco controlMedicineCancerEnvironmental healthCancer preventionTobacco useCancer incidenceIncidence (geometry)Disease controlResidenceTobacco productDiseaseDemographyGerontologyPublic healthPopulationOncologyPathologyInternal medicine

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American Cancer Society US

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Year: 2008
Type: article
Volume: 100
Issue: 23
Pages: 1672-1694
Citations: 950
Access: Closed

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                                    Ahmedin Jemal, 
                                
                                    Michael J. Thun, 
                                
                                    Lynn A. G. Ries
                                
                                et al.
                            
                            (2008). 
                            Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, 1975–2005, Featuring Trends in Lung Cancer, Tobacco Use, and Tobacco Control. 
                            JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute
                            , 100
                            (23)
                            , 1672-1694.
                            https://doi.org/10.1093/jnci/djn389
                        

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DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djn389