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Lung cancer, and its relationship to cigarette smoking, has been receiving more attention than the other forms of cancer.
This has been due to the rapid increase' in lung cancer mortality With 55,000 victims in the past year, mostly men, the death rate is ten times what it was .10 years ago.
The official figures show that lung cancer caused 18 percent of all cancer deaths in the United States and 19 percent in the State of Virginia.
In Rappahannock County, the report shows, it was responsible for 4.1 percent of them.
Slowly but surely, progress is being made in coping with certain forms of cancer, according to the National Cancer Institute
New drugs and new combinations of treatment have boosted the survival rate in cases involving cancer of the colon, rectum, cervix and breast.
As to lung cancer, however, there has been little progress. The five-year survival rale is still under 10 percent Under the c i r c u m stances, t h e recommendation is "slop smoking."
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