NCI’s Penberthy: We may be seeing some impact of treatment in lung cancer mortality, but we need more data

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If the mortality rate for lung cancer is starting to fall of a cliff in part because of treatment effect—contributing to more than a third of the 2.2% decline in overall cancer mortality from 2016 to 2017—is that signal showing up on the radar of NCI’s Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program?

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Matthew Bin Han Ong
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