The following two articles focus on different aspects of lung
cancer.
The first, which is part of the series of Chronic Disease Reports,
discusses lung cancer mortality for 1986 and is based on mortality
data
from CDC's National Center for Health Statistics for the total U.S.
population. The second reports on lung cancer incidence and trends
from
1973 to 1986 and is based on data from the nine sites of the
Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program of the National
Cancer Institute (NCI). The editorial note discusses some of these
findings and current NCI efforts to alter smoking behavior.
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