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.
United States Totals 2004 (3)
Lung and Bronchus Cancer
173,770
160,440
Kentucky Totals 2004 (3)
Lung and Bronchus Cancer
3660
3380
Kentucky Totals 2002 (2)
Lung and Bronchus Cancer
3400
3100
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
(3) CA A Cancer Journal for Clinicians. Vol 54 No 1 Jan/Feb
2004
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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