Lung cancer is not common in young people, but it does occur. It is easily missed in the early stages, so you need to tell your healthcare provider if you have anysigns or symptoms of lung cancer, or if you have a family history of the disease. This is true whether you are a smok...
Lung cancer at a young age in New Zealand: A N Graham and J E Garrett Department of Medicine, Public Hospital, Tauranga, and Department of Respiratory Medicine, Greenlane Hospital, Auckland, New Zealanddoi:10.1016/0169-5002(91)91359-JNone...
We examine lung cancer incidence rates in young women vs. young men in 40 countries across five continents. Lung and bronchial cancer cases by 5-year age group (ages 30-64) and 5-year calendar period (1993-2012) were extracted from Cancer Incidence in Five Continents. Female-to-male ...
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the US, accounting for almost a quarter of all cancer-related fatalities; 80–90% of cases can be attributed to smoking. Lung cancer is generall...
Lung cancer is the most common cause of cancer-related deaths globally. Although smoking-related lung cancers continue to account for the majority of diagnoses, smoking rates have been decreasing for several decades. Lung cancer in individuals who have never smoked (LCINS) is estimated to be the...
the age-adjusted incidence rate of adenocarcinoma, among both men and women, continued to rise, so that beginning in the late 1990s and continuing into the early 2000s,adenocarcinomashave become the most frequently encountered lung cancers. The two histologic subgroups of lung cancer most strongly ...
Lung cancer is relatively rare in the younger population, and less than 3.5% of lung cancer patients are younger than 45 years old10. However, in recent decades, as the incidence of lung cancer has increased, the average age at diagnosis has decreased11. Lung cancer in young patients is a...
Women are particularly over-represented among young patients. While overall cancer mortality in Europe is decreasing, female lung cancer mortality is increasing. Objectives: We describe the epidemiological presentation of lung cancer in young Swedish women, aiming to pinpoint its risk factors for young...
Genetically protected young smokers? – A case- control study on lung cancer before the age of 50 years246 patients with a primary, histologically or cytologically confirmed neoplasm, recruited from 2000 to 2003 in major lung clinics across Germany, were matched to 223 unrelated healthy controls....
Lung cancer (LC) is the leading cause of cancer death in China and Australia, the countries with different socioenvironmental contexts in the Western Pacific Region. Comparing the age-period-cohort effect on LC mortality (LCM) between the two countries c