Open AccessHigher Lung Cancer Incidence in Young Women Than Young Men in the United States
Author(s) -
Ahmedin Jemal,
Kimberly D. Miller,
Jiemin Ma,
Rebecca L. Siegel,
Stacey A. Fedewa,
Farhad Islami,
Susan S. Devesa,
Michael J. Thun
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
new england journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 19.889
H-Index - 1030
eISSN - 1533-4406
pISSN - 0028-4793
DOI - 10.1056/nejmoa1715907
Subject(s) - incidence (geometry) , demography , lung cancer , young adult , medicine , cancer , gerontology , oncology , physics , sociology , optics
Previous studies showed a higher incidence of lung cancer among young women than among young men in the United States. Whether this pattern has continued in contemporary birth cohorts and, if so, whether it can be fully explained by sex differences in smoking behaviors are unknown.
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