Cigarette Smoking and Changes in the Histopathology of Lung Cancer

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Authors

Michael J. Thun · American Cancer Society

Cathy Lally · American Cancer Society

E. E. Calle · American Cancer Society

C. W. Heath · American Cancer Society

James Flannery · Oklahoma State Department of Health

W. Dana Flanders · Emory University

Abstract

The increase in lung adenocarcinoma since the 1950s is more consistent with changes in smoking behavior and cigarette design than with diagnostic advances.

Topics & Keywords

Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations Global Cancer Incidence and Screening Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Good health and well-being

Publication Details

Published in: JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Volume 89, Issue 21, pp. 1580-1586

DOI: 10.1093/jnci/89.21.1580

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