| Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in | | | | fortunate ones get cured from this miserable disease. |
| the American population and the western world. Lung | | | | About 157,000 people die as the direct result of lung |
| cancer use to be the leading cause of cancer deaths | | | | cancer.The mortality related to lung cancer exceeds |
| in American men only, but since 1988, women have | | | | the combined mortality rates of second (breast |
| caught up with men and since then lung cancer is | | | | cancer), third (prostate cancer), and fourth (colon |
| leading cause of cancer deaths in women as well. | | | | cancer) leading causes of cancer death. How would |
| Well over 170,000 cases of lung cancers are | | | | we react if every day a Boing 747 crashes and all |
| diagnosed in the United States each year. Very few | | | | the passengers die? |