More people are surviving lung cancer in the US, report finds

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Over the past decade, the rate of new lung cancer cases diagnosed in the United States has dropped 19% and the five-year survival rate has climbed 26%, according to a new report.

Yet lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer death nationwide -- and your chances of surviving lung cancer can vary drastically depending on where you live.Younger American women more likely than men to get lung cancerThe American Lung Association's"State of Lung Cancer" report, published Wednesday, found the national incidence rate of lung cancer between 2012 and 2016 was 59.6 cases per 100,000 people. Those rates varied by state -- ranging from 27.1 in Utah to 92.

Screening smokers may save lives 01:20"Most cases are only caught at a very late stage. You don't get symptoms until it's very late and it's very developed," said Zach Jump, national director for epidemiology and statistics at the American Lung Association.

The report was based on data from the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries; the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results Program; and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

 

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A large part of this decrease is due to VAPING.

It costs about $10k just to get diagnosed, then another $100k+ for chemo. Not to many people can afford the diagnosis let alone the treatment.

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But what about that vaping epidemic

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doesn't Cuba already have a cure?

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Better diagnostic tools and better surgical and drug treatments are leading to the improved survival rate. All this brought to us by for-profit healthcare!

As an eternal being and the whistleblower... I hate cancer. Even though my blood is the cure for cancer... I hope America can keep fighting the good fight!!!

The big tobacco companies sabotage the vaping industry. They were losing too much money. Why all of a sudden people started dying products with sabotage. Americans are so naive....

Cigarettes aren't the single problem, it's the environment that your republican senators and republican congressmen want to continue dumping waste in.

God's blessings on all the cancer Survivors, including myself.

That's because of vaping and less people smoking... Vape Vaping ElMonoVapeador

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Oh no! Well, if we can continue pushing vape bans we can turn these numbers around in no time

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OMG ITS BECAUSE OF VAPING.

Yay! But they're impoverished for the rest of it.

That’s great for ppl with bad genes 🧬

This that encouraged me to start smoking cigarettes

I wish my late friend was fortunate enough to live in the US.

Well, not my Mim. She was diagnosed in May and died in September. cancersucks

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Looks like Trump has eventually got something working

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Good news. We shall overcome

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Happy news.

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Don’t say it too loud then republicans will change screening tech like with breast cancer!

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Then how many in Africa

As a unicorn who’s blood is the cure for cancer I can say that cancer will be gone in the next 30 years.

This is news. Cheers to everyone who quit cancer sticks or never started.

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