Yago Garitaonaindía, Translational Research Fellow at CCIT-DK – National Center for Cancer Immune Therapy of Denmark, shared on LinkedIn:
“Seventy years of lung cancer mortality in Europe, in one figure
- Men: peaked, now falling.
- Women: rose for decades, and in several countries still rising.
In general, no drug alone is capable of moving a population curve the way prevention does.
Tobacco policy did, and the effect only showed up a generation later. And it also matters after the diagnosis: quitting improves outcomes in patients already diagnosed with lung cancer.
Much has been done, but other factors still need to be considered, radon among them.
Stat Bite by Freddie Bray (IARC/World Health Organization), in Journal of National Cancer Institute (NCI), Oxford University Press.”
Title: Stat Bite: Time trends in lung cancer mortality in four European countries by sex, all ages combined, 1951-2022
Author: Freddie Bray
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