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Lung Cancer Was Not an Issue Before Smoking [08/13-3]
Excerpts from: Lung cancer rare before cigarettes
CBC NEWS [08/11/03]
Pressuring legislators to place further restrictions on tobacco advertising and smoking in public places is the best way to reduce rates of lung cancer, doctors say.
Lung cancer causes more deaths than the next three cancers combined. In men, 90 per cent of lung cancers are linked to tobacco use. In women, the figure is 85 per cent.
More than 3,000 lung cancer specialists are meeting in Vancouver this week for the 10th World Conference on Lung Cancer.
He applauds legislators for applying bans on tobacco advertising and smoking in public areas. Murray believes the bans are the only way to fight lung cancer because researchers are a long way from finding a cure.
"Cigarette cancers are just so difficult biologically, so resistant to treatments and so virulent with respect to the capacity to spread that we've had to be satisfied with gains that are important, but perhaps not as large as we would like."
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