Lung Cancer
Tobacco use fingered as culprit in lung cancer increase in women
Published in Women's Health Weekly, April 29th, 2004
Researchers predict the same explosive increase in lung cancer occurring among women in developing countries if their tobacco use isn't curtailed.
Jyoti D. Patel, MD, of the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, and colleagues reviewed current information on the "epidemic" of lung cancer in U.S. women in an article in the April 14, 2004, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), and explored contributing factors and...
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