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Lung cancer
The number and percentage of deaths from all forms of cancer
was higher than in the previous year, and once again attention is drawn
to the high number of lung cancer deaths. The increasing percentage
of such deaths among females is particularly disturbing.
It cannot be repeated too often that the way to lessen the risk of
getting lung cancer is not to smoke. That is all the good advice that
need be given about the subject, which if it were obeyed would undoubtedly
result in a dramatic lessening of the incidence of this fatal
disease.