Lung cancer epidemiology and genetics.

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Lung cancer is the number one cause of cancer death for all citizens of the United States regardless of gender, race, or ethnic background. Surgery, the only curative treatment available, is feasible in only 35% of all patients with lung cancer. But even in this group of patients, most will die of recurrent disease. Treatment advances have been modest at best, and the 5-year survival rate of approximately 15% has...

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