Female lung cancer mortality rates increased 550% between 1950, when lung cancer was almost nonexistent in women, and 1991.1-3
Lung cancer became the leading cause of cancer death in U.S. women in 1987, as it has been in men since the early 1950s.1-3
1 Ernster VL, The epidemiology of lung cancer in women. Annals of Epidemiology. 1994;4: 102-110.
2 Ernster VL, Female lung cancer. Annual Review of Public Health, 1996;17:97-114.
3 SEER 1996.
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