Lung Cancer
Lung Cancer Information for Patients and Health Professionals
Overview
Since 1987, more women have died each year of lung cancer than of breast cancer, which had been the major cause of cancer death in women for more than 40 years. It is estimated that 98,620 women will be diagnosed with lung cancer in 2007 and 70,880 women will die from this disease in the United States. Although incidence and mortality rates in men have been declining since the early 1980s and 1990s, respectively, these rates for women have continued to increase until recently. A recent analysis suggests that the discrepancy in declining incidence rates between men and women largely reflects smoking prevalence from past decades. High death rates reflect our limited ability to detect lung cancer at an early and potentially more curable stage.
Black men have the highest incidence and death rates from lung cancer followed by somewhat lower rates for non-Hispanic white men. The highest lung cancer incidence and death rates occur in non-Hispanic white women with slightly lower rates found in black women.
- Thoracic Cancers Topic Search
— Cancer Topic Searches are prepared literature searches from the National Library of Medicine's PubMed database. Citations on a specific sub-category can be retrieved, or results limited by a date range.
Statistics
Statistics related to cancer incidence and mortality including analysis by race and ethnicity, and information about trends in NCI-funded lung cancer research.
- A Snapshot of Lung Cancer
- Fast Stats: Lung and Bronchus Cancer
- Cancer Stat Fact Sheets: Lung and Bronchus
- New Malignancies Following Cancer of the Respiratory Tract (SEER Cancer Registries, 1973-2000)
NCI Research on Lung Cancer
Information about NCI-funded grants, clinical trials, and other programs and initiatives with components that primarily target lung cancer.
- Progress in Research on Lung and Other Tobacco-Related Cancers (NCI Women's Health Report FY 2005-2006)
- Lung Cancer Research Projects
- SPOREs in Lung Cancer (Specialized Programs of Research Excellence)
- Cancer Intervention and Surveillance Modeling Network (CISNET) (Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences)
Biology and Genetics
- Mouse models: Lung Cancer Models
- Clinical Trials in Lung Cancer Genetics
Prevention and Control
- Lung Cancer Prevention Programs (Division of Cancer Prevention)
- Clinical Trials in Lung Cancer Prevention
- Research on Tobacco Control (Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences)
Early Detection, Diagnosis, and Prognosis
- Clinical Trials in Lung Cancer Screening
- Clinical Trials in Lung Cancer Diagnosis
- Cancer Biomarkers Research Group (Division of Cancer Prevention)
Treatment
- Clinical Trials in Lung Cancer Treatment
- Lung Cancer Clinical Trial Results
Lung Cancer Reports
Reports on progress, gap areas, and recommended future directions in lung cancer research.
