Lung cancer in perspective

["Bjorn Cedervall" <bcradsafers@hotmail.com>]

A friend of mine (prof. in the cancer field) told me earlier today that 
according to the 1999 year's statistics, lung cancer is now the number one 
cancer killer among Swedish women (breast cancer is number two). The 
relationship is more pronounced (lung cancer dominating over breast cancer) 
for younger women. My friend also said that the number of lung cancer deaths 
in the U.S. are about the same as the number of breast, prostate, and 
colorectal cancer deaths plus leukemias put together.
I couldn't get the references - we only spoke for a few minutes - but my 
friend is usually accurate with facts. Any Internet based references will be 
appreciated.

Then the usual scary articles about mobile phones (do they cause brain 
tumors etc) continue as if nothing happened (negative reports don't produce 
headlines) - at least here in Sweden. Last time was only a few days ago - 
one scientist here has suggested the formation of a "truth committee" for 
the mobile phone issue... ("proving the negative" - again...).

My personal reflections only,

Bjorn Cedervall   bcradsafers@hotmail.com

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