Prevalence and Incidence of Lung cancer
Lung cancer Prevalence: Book Excerpts
Incidence (annual) of Lung cancer:
169,400 annual cases (SEER 2002 estimate: lung and bronchus cancers) ... see also overview of Lung cancer.
Incidence Rate:
approx 1 in 1,605 or 0.06% or 169,400 people in USA [Source statistic for calcuation: "169,400 annual cases (SEER 2002 estimate: lung and bronchus cancers)" -- see also general information about data sources]
Incidence extrapolations for USA for Lung cancer:
169,399 per year,
14,116 per month,
3,257 per week,
464 per day,
19 per hour,
0 per minute,
0 per second.
[Source statistic for calculation: "169,400 annual cases (SEER 2002 estimate: lung and bronchus cancers)" -- see also general information about data sources]
Lifetime risk for Lung cancer:
1 in 17 lifetime risk of lung cancer for women in the US (Cancer Facts and Figures, American Cancer Society, 2004)
Prevelance statistics for Lung cancer:
The following statistics relate to the prevalence of Lung cancer:
- 1 in 17 lifetime risk of lung cancer for women in the US (Cancer Facts and Figures, American Cancer Society, 2004)
- 1 in 45 women will develop lung cancer during their lifetime in Australia 2000 (AIHW and AACR, AIHW National Mortality Database, Australia’s Health 2004, AIHW)
- 1 in 22 men will develop lung cancer during their lifetime in Australia 2000 (AIHW and AACR, AIHW National Mortality Database, Australia’s Health 2004, AIHW)
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Incidence statistics for Lung cancer:
The following statistics relate to the incidence of Lung cancer:
- 173,770 new cases for lung/bronchial cancer in the US 2004 (Cancer Facts and Figures, American Cancer Society, 2004)
- 93,110 new male cases for lung/bronchial cancer in the US 2004 (Cancer Facts and Figures, American Cancer Society, 2004)
- 80,660 new female cases for lung/bronchial cancer in the US 2004 (Cancer Facts and Figures, American Cancer Society, 2004)
- 1 in 17 lifetime risk of lung cancer for women in the US (Cancer Facts and Figures, American Cancer Society, 2004)
- 1 in 45 women will develop lung cancer during their lifetime in Australia 2000 (AIHW and AACR, AIHW National Mortality Database, Australia’s Health 2004, AIHW)
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Death statistics for Lung cancer:
The following statistics relate to deaths and Lung cancer:
- 152,000 deaths in 1999 (CDC); 28% of cancer deaths; 152,182 deaths reported in USA 1999 (NVSR Sep 2001)
- 91,930 estimated male deaths for lung/bronchial cancer in the US 2004 (Cancer Facts and Figures, American Cancer Society, 2004)
- 68,510 estimated female deaths for lung/bronchial cancer in the US 2004 (Cancer Facts and Figures, American Cancer Society, 2004)
- 2,543 women died from lung cancer in Australia 2002 (AIHW National Morbidity Database, Australia’s Health 2004, AIHW)
- 3.9% of all female deaths was due to lung cancer in Australia 2002 (AIHW National Morbidity Database, Australia’s Health 2004, AIHW)
- 4,760 men died from lung cancer in Australia 2002 (AIHW National Morbidity Database, Australia’s Health 2004, AIHW)
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More Statistics about Lung cancer:
Deaths and related statistics
Hospitalization statistics
Survival rate statistics
All statistics for Lung cancer
Prevalence/Incidence of Lung cancer: Online Medical Books
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Lung cancer:
Causes and incidence
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
Most experts agree that lung cancer is attributable to inhalation of carcinogenic pollutants by a susceptible host. Who's most susceptible? Any smoker older than age 40, especially if he began to smoke before age 15, has smoked a whole pack or more per day for 20 years, or works with or near asbestos.
Pollutants in tobacco smoke cause progressive lung cell degeneration. Lung cancer is 10 times more common in smokers than in nonsmokers; 80% of patients with lung cancer are smokers. Cancer risk is determined by the number of cigarettes smoked daily, the depth of inhalation, how early in life smoking began, and the nicotine content of cigarettes. Two other factors also increase susceptibility: exposure to carcinogenic industrial and air pollutants (asbestos, uranium, arsenic, nickel, iron oxides, chromium, radioactive dust, and coal dust) and familial susceptibility.
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Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005
Malignant spinal neoplasms:
Causes and incidence
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
Primary tumors of the spinal cord may be extramedullary (occurring outside the spinal cord) or intramedullary (occurring within the cord itself). Extramedullary tumors may be intradural (meningiomas and schwannomas), which account for 60% of all primary malignant spinal cord neoplasms, or extradural (metastatic tumors from breasts, lungs, prostate, leukemia, or lymphomas), which account for 25% of these malignant neoplasms.
Intramedullary tumors, or gliomas (astrocytomas or ependymomas), are comparatively rare, accounting for only about 10%. In children, they're low-grade astrocytomas.
Spinal cord tumors are rare compared with intracranial tumors (ratio of 1:4). They occur equally in men and women, with the exception of meningiomas, which occur mostly in women. Spinal cord tumors can occur anywhere along the length of the cord or its roots.
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Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005
About prevalence and incidence statistics:
The term 'prevalence' of Lung cancer usually refers to the estimated population
of people who are managing Lung cancer at any given time.
The term 'incidence' of Lung cancer refers to the annual diagnosis rate,
or the number of new cases of Lung cancer diagnosed each year.
Hence, these two statistics types can differ:
a short-lived disease like flu can have high annual incidence but low prevalence,
but a life-long disease like diabetes has a low annual incidence but high prevalence.
For more information see about prevalence and incidence statistics.
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