Women's Susceptibility to Tobacco Carcinogens and Survival After Diagnosis of Lung Cancer

An article in today's JAMA states that In 2006 in the United States, it is estimated that lung cancer will cause 73 020 deaths in women, proportionately only slightly fewer than the estimated 90 470 deaths in men. Lung cancer now accounts for more deaths in women than any other cancer, more even than the second and third cancer killers (breast and colon cancer) combined