Title: 5 States Where Lung Cancer Rates Are the Highest | The Motley Fool
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5 States Where Lung Cancer Rates Are the Highest
Lung cancer is the third-most diagnosed type of cancer, but is the most deadly. These are the five states with the highest incidence rate of lung cancer in the U.S.

Content: 5 States Where Lung Cancer Rates Are the Highest | The Motley Fool
5 States Where Lung Cancer Rates Are the Highest
Lung cancer is the third-most diagnosed type of cancer, but is the most deadly. These are the five states with the highest incidence rate of lung cancer in the U.S.
Sean Williams
(TMFUltraLong)
Feb 23, 2014 at 1:05PM
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There are few, if any, diagnoses scarier than cancer, primarily because it's a disease that has had billions of dollars thrown at it over the course of the past three decades, yet researchers, and we as a nation, are still very much in the dark as to how and why cancer cells form, trigger, and replicate in the first place. Perhaps no cancer tops the list of those which are most feared more than lung and bronchus cancer. Although lung cancer is only the third most prominently diagnosed cancer each year, behind only prostate cancer and breast cancer, lung cancer is by far the biggest killer of all, claiming more deaths, according to figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2009, than prostate cancer and breast cancer, combined. Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. One of the primary concerns with lung cancer is that while some advancements have been made in recent years, these have been baby steps rather than large leaps. Since 1975-1977 through 2002-2008, the number of lung cancer patients alive five years after diagnosis has only risen from 12% to 17% -- and a big chunk of this improvement likely has to do with better awareness of lung cancer risk factors such as smoking.