The lung cancer incidence rate for 1990-97 among Hispanic white women (20.3 per 100,000) was one-half that among non-Hispanic white women.
The lung cancer incidence rate for the 1990-97 among Asian or Pacific woman (22.5 per 100,000) was also lower than among white women.
The five-year relative survival rate, for those diagnosed with lung cancer in 1986-1996, was 13.5% among black women and was 16.6% among white women.
The survival rate has not changed in the past 20 years. Lung cancer continues to kill.
Source: Women and Smoking: A Report of the Surgeon General—2001 |
