More on declining cancer deaths
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Newsweek dug further into the latest cancer deaths statistics.
Cancer deaths for me decreased 16.3% between 1990 and 2003. For women the decrease was 8.5%… quite a difference.
The biggest difference was in lung cancer.
The results are being attributed to smoking… men have been smokers for over 100 years. Women didn’t start to “come a long way baby” until 1965, escalating until around 1985. That habit started 40 years ago is now showing up in the lung cancer death statistics.
Another notable male – female difference noted is 90% of male cancer deaths are smokers. For women, 80% are smokers. Second hand smoke is believed to account for the difference.
Lung cancer accounts for 26% of cancer deaths for women.
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