In 1987, lung cancer surpassed breast cancer as the leading cause of cancer deaths among women in the United States.

Cancer News on the Net is an Internet publication dedicated to bringing patients and their families the latest information on cancer diagnosis and treatment.

News story profiles physician and patients dealing with one of the most lethal, yet one of the most preventable, kinds of cancer.

To build public awareness of lung cancer, four national cancer organizations are uniting to launch a nationwide lung cancer awareness campaign. The goals of the campaign are to promote better diagnosis and treatment of the disease, increase research funding, and publicize medical advances and support services that can help reduce the deaths and suffering associated with lung cancer.

Lung cancer is catching up with more and more women. The disease, which is fatal for 86 percent of its victims within five years of a diagnosis, is now the leading cause of cancer death among women. Good Housekeeping article.

Are you or a loved one suffering from terminal cancer? This page contains some pertinent poems and commentary about what it means to be sick and to die well.

FAQ answers questions like: how common is long cancer in women? Can I develop lung cancer if I don't smoke? What is my risk for lung cancer if I smoke?

Years of attention paid to young women by tobacco marketers have yielded gruesome dividends, researchers said.

Medical journal summarizes the current situation.

Women who smoke the same amount as men are twice as likely to get lung cancer.

For 20 years, breast cancer fears have been the more dominant among women, but lung cancer is now the bigger killer; this article explains.

Recent research finds that tobacco smoke exposure that causes lung cancer includes both personal smoking and secondhand smoke.

"Few Americans see lung cancer as a women's health problem. But it is one of the deadliest risks for female smokers, and even for women who stopped smoking 10, 20 or even 30 years ago."

Recent research confirms that cigarettes cause more lung cancer in women.

From article in Washington Post, 10/27/1998.

"Law and Order" star S. Epatha Merkerson speaks about lung cancer awareness, after the death of two close friends to the disease.

"We're more susceptible than men. It kills more of us than any other cancer. And our daughters are taking up smoking in record numbers. Read on."

The facts from a comprehensive, peer reviewed lung cancer resource sponsored by the Oncology Nursing Society and Cancer Care, Inc.

A report in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute gives weight to an unproven theory that women may be more vulnerable than men to the cancer-causing substances in tobacco smoke.

Recent research; CT scans of about 500 men and 500 women, none of whom had any symptoms of lung cancer, revealed small tumors in the lungs of 19 women and 10 men.