The beginning of the end of the lung cancer epidemic in Dutch women?

Abstract In some European countries, female lung cancer mortality and incidence have started to decrease or flatten out, whereas they are still rising in The Netherlands. We present recent mortality and incidence trends of lung cancer and smoking trends in The Netherlands to show the end of the lung cancer epidemic in Dutch women. Lung cancer mortality and incidence rates by gender were analyzed for 4 age groups (20–44, 45–49, 50–54 and 55–59), and smoking prevalence rates were examined for women using joinpoint regression and birth cohort analysis. Data on mortality were collected for the per... Mehr ...