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Higher Lung Cancer Incidence in Young Women Than Young Men in the United States [1]

Submitted by mferguson [2] on Wed, 2018-05-23 23:15

The age-specific incidence of non-small cell lung cancer has reversed in individuals born since the 1960s, with women now having a higher incidence than men.  This trend is not explained by differences in smoking habits.

Source name: 
The New England Journal of Medicine
Resource link: 
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1715907 [3]
Taxonomy: 
Lung - Cancer [4]
Lung Cancer - Other [5]
Subspecialty(ies): 
Thoracic [6]
Author(s): 
Ahmedin Jemal, Kimberly D. Miller, Jiemin Ma, Rebecca L. Siegel, Stacey A. Fedewa, Farhad Islami, Susan S. Devesa, Michael J. Thun
Taxonomy2018 vocabulary term reference: 
Lung [7]
Cancer [8]
Source URL:https://www.ctsnet.org/jans/higher-lung-cancer-incidence-young-women-young-men-united-states

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[1] https://www.ctsnet.org/jans/higher-lung-cancer-incidence-young-women-young-men-united-states [2] https://www.ctsnet.org/home/mferguson [3] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1715907 [4] https://www.ctsnet.org/tags/lung-cancer [5] https://www.ctsnet.org/taxonomy/lung-cancer-other [6] https://www.ctsnet.org/categories/thoracic [7] https://www.ctsnet.org/taxonomy2018/lung [8] https://www.ctsnet.org/taxonomy2018/cancer