Wednesday, April 21, 1999
Death rate for lung cancer above average in Tristate
BY TIM BONFIELD
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana stacked up poorly in a review of America's No.1 cancer killer — lung cancer.
While state-by-state cancer data were limited in a national cancer report published Tuesday, the report took a detailed look at lung cancer and smoking rates.
Lung cancer kills about 160,000 Americans a year, according to the American Cancer Society. That's far more than the 56,500 who die from colorectal cancer, the 43,500 women who die per year of breast cancer or the 39,200 men who die of prostate cancer.
Lung cancer death rates exceeded national averages in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana from 1990 to 1996, with Kentucky reporting the nation's highest death rate from lung cancer.
All three states also had higher smoking rates, according to a 1997 survey done by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The Kentucky lung cancer death rate was 67.9 per 100,000 residents — about 37 percent higher than the national average of 49.7 per 100,000 residents.
Indiana's lung cancer death rate was 55.4 per 100,000 — 12th in the nation and 11 percent above average. Ohio's lung cancer death rate was 54.2 per 100,000, 15th in the nation and 9 percent above average.
Kentucky's adult smoking rate also topped the nation in 1997 at 30.8 percent, compared with the national average of 23.1 percent. Indiana ranked ninth at 26.3 percent and Ohio ranked 12th at 25.1 percent.
U.S. death rates in Tuesday's report were compiled by the National Center for Health Statistics. Incidence rates were based on a National Cancer Institute program.
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