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Mixed progress against lung cancer
Michael J Thun
American Cancer
Society, 1599 Clifton Road, NE, Atlanta, Georgia 30329, USA.
mthun@cancer.org
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Although tobacco smoking causes many diseases and affects most of the organ systems in the body, lung cancer is typically the first condition that comes to mind when one considers the health impact of smoking. Lung cancer is also one of the most important and devastating illnesses caused by smoking, given its high incidence in populations where smoking is common, its high fatality rate, and the difficulty in detecting the disease when it is still localised. Therefore we commissioned an update on lung cancer and smoking from Dr Michael Thun of the American Cancer Society, which appears below.
Shown on the cover of this issue of "Tobacco Control" are
four false-colour scanning electron micrographs of lung cancer, obtained from the Science Photo Library in London
(http://www.sciencephoto.com). The upper left image shows
cancer of the human bronchus, the most common form of lung cancer.
Until the 1970s, such cancers
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