HISTORY OF LUNG CANCER
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A review of the history of lung cancer shows that about a century and a half ago, lung cancer was an extremely rare disease. Cases of malignant lung tumors began to increase at the turn of the 20th century.
Duration of the disease, from diagnosis until death, was usually from half a year to 2 years and in practically all cases, there had been a long history of chronic bronchitis.
The causes of increase in lung cancer incidence were thought to have included increased air pollution, cigarette smoking, asphalting of roads, increase in automobile traffic, exposure to gas in World War I, the influenza pandemic of 1918 and working with benzene or gasoline.
By the late 1960s, arsenic and asbestos were identified as causes of lung cancer by the numerous lung cancer cases in people working in occupations where such substances were common e.g. mining.
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