Racial disparity in lung cancer rates narrowed in young adults due to larger decrease in smoking

Thursday, December 3, 2009 - 14:22 in Health & Medicine

Effective prevention of smoking among teenagers, particularly black teenagers, is narrowing the disparity in lung cancer rates between blacks and whites, according to a report published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. The December issue has a special focus on tobacco.

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