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Carcinoma of the bronchus is the commonest cancer in the Western world among men, while in women only cancers of the breast, large bowel, and skin have a higher incidence. Since lung cancer is predominantly caused by smoking, future trends in the disease will be largely determined by what happens to smoking habits over the next few decades. There are, however, a number of other factors involved in the pathogenesis of lung cancer and examination of the epidemiological data for the past 30 years suggests that some changes can be expected independently of changes in smoking habits.
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Spiro, S.G. (1988). Epidemiology. In: Hoogstraten, B., Addis, B.J., Hansen, H.H., Martini, N., Spiro, S.G. (eds) Lung Tumors. UICC Current Treatment of Cancer. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82873-7_1
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