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AUSTRALIAN LUNG CANCER MORTALITY
Author(s) -
Rohan T.,
Christie David
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1980.tb135050.x
Subject(s) - lung cancer , demography , cohort , mortality rate , medicine , cigarette smoking , cancer , environmental health , oncology , surgery , sociology
In Australia, an increasing spread of anti‐cigarette smoking education has occurred during the past two decades, matched by the cigarette‐promoting activities of commercial interests. Analysis of mortality statistics over the period shows that the rate of increase in deaths from lung cancer among men is definitely slowing, but that no such change can be discerned among women. Cohort analysis reveals that, still, each successive generation has a higher death rate from lung cancer at every age than the previous generation.