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Lung Cancer Facts

If You Have Lungs, You Can Get Lung Cancer

  • Each year in the US, approximately 220,000 people are diagnosed with lung cancer.1
     
  • Lung cancer takes more lives than breast, prostate and colon cancers combined; it accounts for 27% of all cancer deaths.1
     
  • African American males have the highest incidence of lung cancer and the highest death rate.1

Percentage of cancers diagnosed before they have spread
  • Men's incidence rates began declining more than 20 years ago, while women’s rates just recently began to decline slightly.3

Lung Cancer Incidence Rates

References

1 American Cancer Society. Cancer Facts and Figures 2011. Atlanta: American Cancer Society; 2011.
2 American Cancer Society, Breast Cancer Facts & Figures 2009-2010. Atlanta: American Cancer Society; 2010.
3 Kohler, B, et al. Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, 1975-2007, Featuring Tumors of the Brain & Other Nervous System. JNCI, 2011. doi:10.1093/jnci/djr077
 4 Fast Stats: An interactive tool for access to SEER cancer statistics. Surveillance Research Program, National Cancer Institute. http://seer.cancer.gov/faststats. (Accessed on 4-22-2011)

Last Updated on 12/12/2011