Information concerning cancer report in the news over the past
week.
“Both incidence and death rates from all cancers combined decreased
statistically significantly ( P < .05) in men and women overall and
in most racial and ethnic populations. These decreases were driven largely by
declines in both incidence and death rates for the three most common cancers in
men (lung, colorectum, and prostate) and for two of the three leading cancers
in women (breast and colorectum), combined with a leveling off of lung cancer
death rates in women. Although the national trend in female lung cancer death
rates has stabilized since 2003, after increasing for several decades, there is
prominent state and regional variation. Lung cancer incidence and/or death
rates among women increased in 18 states, 16 of them in the South or Midwest,
where, on average, the prevalence of smoking was higher and the annual percentage
decrease in current smoking among adult women was lower than in the West and
Northeast. California was the only state with decreasing lung cancer incidence
and death rates in women.”
R. William Field, PHD, MS
Professor
Department of Occupational and
Environmental Health
Department of Epidemiology
College of Public Health
N222 Oakdale Hall
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242
PH:319-335-4413
bill-field@uiowa.edu
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