Smoking causes 87% of all lung
cancer cases. Smokers have approximately one chance
in 10 of developing lung cancer over his/her lifetime. Kentucky
has the highest incidence of adult smoking (2) and the highest incidence of lung
cancer - (in 1997 to 1998 82 cases per 100,000 people per year).
Lung cancer rates are 52% higher in Kentucky than the national average
(1).
To the right is a picture of a
surgical specimen of a lung, filled with cancer.
References: (1) Lung Cancer Policy Brief Volume 1
Issue 2
- University of Kentucky Prevention Research Center
(2) CA A Cancer Journal for Clinicians. Vol 52 No 1
Jan/Feb 2002
The X-Rays shown below are
from a 57 year old, with a 75 pack year history of smoking, who was
found to have a carcinoma in the upper portion of his right lung.
The far left hand picture is a chest X-Ray which shows a lesion in the
patient's right lung with deviation of the trachea ( wind pipe ) to the
right side (red arrows). The left hand pictures are Chest CT Scans
of the same lesion.
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