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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2004 96(12):898-900; doi:10.1093/jnci/96.12.898
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New Studies Fan Controversy Over Gender Risk in Lung Cancer

Renee Twombly

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When the Surgeon General's Report on Smoking and Health was released 40 years ago, smoking was largely viewed in the context of men's health—so many men were dying from lung cancer and associated diseases that scientists debated whether the lower numbers of female smokers were resistant to the tobacco scourge. But now tobacco use has taken its place as a serious health threat for women and is being seen as a "contemporary epidemic" in women in the United States and many other countries.

Today in the United States, 40% of American women report a history of smoking. Lung cancer incidence has dipped in men but not in women, and the disease killed almost 69,000 women in 2003—many more than breast and all other gynecologic cancers combined. In fact, mortality from smoking has increased 600% in the past 50 years.

So the risk that tobacco use poses to women is not . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Differences in Biology Versus Risk

No Consensus


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