On the recordJune 22, 2004
It is regarding a fundamental question which most people cannot answer, cancer in women. I ask people to be thinking what the appropriate answer is, What is the deadliest cancer in women today? What is the leading cause of cancer death among 55 percent of our population today? Most people think breast cancer, cervical cancer, ovarian cancer, or one of the gynecological cancers. It is not. The deadliest cancer is lung cancer. It is preventable and it does not have to be that way. Therefore, the solution comes with education. The Journal of the American Medical Association this spring published the astonishing finding that lung cancer is the No. 1 cause of cancer deaths in American women. In fact, breast cancer, all the gynecological cancers, add those up and they still do not equal the number of women who die from lung cancer. The female death rate from lung cancer has risen 600 percent over the last six decades.
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