POPULATION DISTRIBUTION OF HISTOLOGICAL TYPES OF LUNG-CANCER - EPIDEMIOLOGIC ASPECTS IN ISRAEL AND REVIEW OF LITERATURE

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  • 1 January 1978
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 14  (7) , 771-784
Abstract
A nationwide study of lung cancer in Israel during 1968-1970 demonstrated a low to moderate incidence in men and a high incidence in women, as compared with other countries. The sex ratio was relatively lower than expected. This discrepancy results from a low rate of squamous cell carcinoma in men and a high rate of adenocarcinoma in women, and is consistent with similar, previously observed trends in North American Jews from New York [New York, USA], Pittsburgh [Pennsylvania, USA], and Montreal [Canada]. The literature relating to the relative frequencies of various histological subcategories of lung cancer was reviewed and the importance, for etiology and prognosis, of a separate assessment of each distinct cell-type entity was emphasized.