Lung cancer is extremely common. This is projected data from the American Cancer Society 1994 cancer incidence by Siton Sexton.
Second high is breast cancer tied with colon rectal carcinoma.
The death estimates or the mortality estimates are even more dismal. If we bring this home to Iowa, this project shows 1,700 deaths from lung cancer in Iowa this year. That means 1 in every 200 in this state will die of lung cancer. Cancer, as you know, is the second most common cause of death in the United States, but if we break it into its component parts, lung cancer is the third most common cause of death in the United States. It is second only to heart disease and is only a small ways behind cardiovascular accidents.