Lung cancer
in women
.increasing
WASHINGTON (UPI) Lung cancer
in women increased 30 percent between
1973 and 1976 in 11 areas across the
nation and most victims died within
three years, the National Cancer In
stitute reported yesterday.
; Dr. Marvin Schneiderman, an
associate institute director for statistics,
said smoking and possibly shifting in
dustrial patterns, with more women
working in former male occupations,
may be responsible for the increase.
Less common, but also showing a
increase, were malignant moles
in whites another particularly serious
form of cancer. Some specialists believe
this may result from changing lifestyles
which expose more people, and more
skin; to the sun.
I The figures covering the 1973-76 period
9 were published in the first report on the
institute’s new program which monitors
10 percent of the nation’s population.
The statistics indicated there was an
annual increase of 1 to 2 percent in the
rates at which people are developing all
. kinds of cancer. That is slightly higher
r than during two previous decades, but
Schneiderman said the measurements
differed somewhat and cannot be
directly compared
The report said the average annual
occurrence rate for all kinds of tumors
was 324.4 per 100,000 people for all areas
■a studied except Puerto Rico, where the
” cancer rate is much lower 200.7 per
100,000.
, The institute said Spanish speaking
populations have lower overall cancer
rates.
Lung cancer was the main contributor
malignancy increases in the 11 areas
lt was the most common type
in men, striking 46:7 of every 100,000 in
1976. The increase was 9 percent bet
ween 1973 and 1976; or 1 percent annually
for white men and 4 percent for blacks.
In white women, lung cancer in
creased steadily by about 8 percent a
"year in the 11 areas, to 22.9 cases per
100,000 in 1976. Among black women, the
increase was even greater almost 10
percent annually, to 24.2 cases per
100,000.
_ The report said preliminary data
.indicated only 12 percent of lung cancer
▼patients on the average survived for
three years after diagnosis.
Breast cancer remained by far the
most common malignancy among the
women monitored, averaging 81 cases
per 100,000 in 1976. Seventy-eight percent
of, women with breast cancer lived at
Ifcast three years after diagnosis.
; For all 11 areas combined, cancers of
the breast, lung, and colon and rectum
were the most common of 15 types
monitored.
'.The incidence rate for colon-rectum
..cancer remained essentially level.
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