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Women & Lung
Cancer
- Lung cancer deaths
among women have increased 150% in the past two decades.
- Two thirds of
the public does not know that lung cancer is more fatal than breast
cancer and has been since 1987. (Study funded by the American Legacy
Foundation)
- By 2006, women
dying from lung cancer will double the number dying from breast cancer.
- There is a possiblity
that women's lungs may have a genetic predisposition to cancer when
exposed. (Amerian Cancer Society)
- Among people who
have never smoked, women appear more likely than men to develop lung
cancer. (JAMA article, 4/14/04)
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