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W. MICHAEL ALBERTS, MD AND FRANK DETTERBECK, MD
Lung cancer causes more deaths in the United States, 160,000 estimated in 2012, than the next three most common cancers, colon, breast, and prostate, combined.
More than 1.6 million people worldwide were newly diagnosed with lung cancer, comprising 13% of all new cancer diagnoses, and 1.4 million died of lung cancer, which was 18% of all cancer deaths in 2008.
The American College of Chest Physicians released the Diagnosis and Management of Lung Cancer, 3rd ed: ACCP Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines on Tuesday (May 7). The guidelines represent the culmination of a multiyear rigorous process involving over 100 multidisciplinary experts in the fields of pulmonology, critical care, thoracic surgery, medical and radiation oncology, pathology, integrative medicine, primary care, health-care research, guidelines methodology, and epidemiology. The ACCP guidelines summarize the state of the art in lung cancer in 24 chapters and 278 recommendations, covering the entire scope of the field.
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Source: KevinMD
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