Journal of the National Cancer Institute
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J. Natl. Cancer Inst. · Apr 1999
Annual report to the nation on the status of cancer, 1973-1996, with a special section on lung cancer and tobacco smoking.
The American Cancer Society, the National Cancer Institute (NCI), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), including the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), provide the second annual report to the nation on progress in cancer prevention and control, with a special section on lung cancer and tobacco smoking. ⋯ The declines in cancer incidence and death rates, particularly for lung cancer, are encouraging. However, unless recent upward trends in smoking among adolescents can be reversed, the lung cancer rates that are currently declining in the United States may rise again.