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Lung Cancer: - Prevention, Management, and Emerging Therapies (Hardcover, Edition.)
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Lung Cancer: - Prevention, Management, and Emerging Therapies (Hardcover, Edition.)
Series: Current Clinical Oncology
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Defining the Lung Cancer Problem 1 Lung cancer is the leading cause
of cancer death in the world. It kills almost as many Americans as
cancers of the breast, prostate, colon, rectum, pancreas, and 2
kidney combined, and accounts for 28.6% of all US cancer deaths.
With an increase in the 5-year relative survival rate from 13% to
only 16% in the more than 2 30 years from 1974 to the present, it
will take us another 840 years to eradicate lung cancer deaths if
we do not improve the current rate of progress. As discussed in
this text, lung cancer prevention has received substantial att-
tion. The decrease in smoking in recent decades has helped, but
smoking is not the only problem. Lung cancer in people who have
never smoked is currently the 5th 3 leading cause of cancer death
in the United States. Several factors contribute to the lethality
of lung cancer, including the rapidity of tumor growth, advanced
stage at diagnosis (due to nonspecificity of early sy- toms and the
uncertain efficacy of screening), early development of metastases,
and resistance to therapy. Several chapters in this book discuss
new molecular targets that may be potentially exploitable in the
future, as well as discussing our track record to date in
exploiting them.
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