By Ian Hunt, Martin M. Muers, Tom Treasure
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In the USA the incidence of mesothelioma has plateaued and may actually be declining because asbestos use was controlled earlier. In the UK, where there is still a perception that this is a rare cancer, it kills more people a year than either melanoma or cancer of the cervix, which are both widely publicised and very familiar to the public at large. There were 153 registered deaths from the disease in 1968, rising to 1862 in 2002, and there are likely be 60,000 deaths over the next 45 years. Following this peak, the number of deaths is expected to decline, reflecting the subsequent control of asbestos in the 1980s.
Hunt, M. Muers and T. Treasure. © 2009 Blackwell Publishing, ISBN: 978-1-4051-4652-4. Classification of lung cancer suitable for operation The classification of lung cancer depends upon the appearance of the cancer cells, as viewed by an expert pathologist looking down a microscope. At present we use a simple dichotomous classification into ‘small cell’ and ‘non-small cell’ lung cancer (SCLC and NSCLC). This arose because patients with small-cell cancers (previously known as oat cell cancer) who had operations intended to cure them, still died of their cancer; and they died about as soon as they would have done if the cancer had never been operated upon.
