Mortality rates of lung cancer show a decreasing trend for males and have levelled off for females. 1 It was previously reported that incidence rates of lung cancer in Osaka had levelled off for males but increased for females, and that mortality rates showed a slightly decreasing trend for males and females in an analysis using the joinpoint regression model. 2 Smoking is a major risk factor for lung cancer.
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Trends in Lung Cancer Incidence Rates by Histological Type in 1975-2008: A Population-Based Study in Osaka, Japan.
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Trends in the incidence rates of ADC The incidence rate of ADC showed an increasing trend among all the age groups for both genders except for males in the 65–74 years age group ( eFigure 2 ).