Sept. 9, 2008 -- Researchers looking into lung cancers in nonsmokers have found that men seem to die from the disease more than women.
The reasons for this are not clear from the study results.
Researchers led by the American Cancer Society's Michael Thun, MD, looked at data to try to better understand how lung cancer affects men and women in different cultures and from different time periods.
They pooled information on lung cancer rates and deaths from 13 large groups representing about 2 million people around the world.
Researchers also abstracted data for women from 22 cancer registries and 10 countries in places where few women smoked.
All the participants were self-described nonsmokers.
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