Select File and then Print from your browser's menu. The issues examined were the risks for the development of lung cancer in smokers, spouses of smokers, recipients of second-hand or sidestream smoke, and the appropriate workup and treatment of patients with lung cancer.
Lung cancer is epidemic in the United States, particularly among women at the present time.
Physician awareness of the environmental and other factors contributing to the disease should stay current with the population variables that we are seeing in clinical practice. However, a recent survey of Americans suggests a widespread lack of knowledge about lung cancer, the nation's leading cause of cancer deaths in both men and women. Of these deaths, lung cancer victims account for nearly one third. Information on tobacco and lung cancer is now widely available to patients, the media, citizen groups, and physicians. However, this information is often misleading, conflicting, inaccurate, and incomplete.