An estimated 234,030 new cases of lung cancer were expected to be diagnosed in the U.S. in 2018.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by multiple independent, authoritative sources including the American Cancer Society's original statistical report, the American Lung Association, and peer-reviewed literature citing the same primary data. [tier=gold indep_score=0.867 clusters=3 claim_tier=everyday]
Sources
- Anyone With Lungs Can Get Lung Cancer (seed:health_and_medicine)
- https://www.cancer.org/content/dam/cancer-org/research/cancer-facts-and-statistics/annual-cancer-facts-and-figures/2018/cancer-facts-and-figures-2018.pdf (corroboration)
- https://www.lung.org/media/press-releases/state-of-lung-cancer (corroboration)
- https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6037963/ (corroboration)