Higher lung cancer incidence in young women than young men in the United States

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 378, Issue 21, 2018, Pages 1999-2009

  Jemal, Ahmedin ^a   Miller, Kimberly D ^a   Ma, Jiemin ^a   Siegel, Rebecca L ^a   Fedewa, Stacey A ^a   Islami, Farhad ^a   Devesa, Susan S ^b   Thun, Michael J ^a  

^a AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BLACK PERSON; CANCER INCIDENCE; CAUCASIAN; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PACIFIC ISLANDER; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING CESSATION; UNITED STATES; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; INCIDENCE; LUNG TUMOR; SEX RATIO; SMOKING; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SMOKING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85047731421     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1715907     Document Type: Article

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