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- Asthma guidelines
- cystic fibrosis
- exhaled airway markers
- lung physiology
- paediatric asthma
- paediatric lung disaese
Cancer, cancer everywhere, and still tobacco is smoked (with apologies to the Ancient Mariner)
This is our first shot at a major theme issue of Thorax, in which we have grouped a number of papers on lung cancer. It includes a paper by Margaret Branthwaite based on her brilliant BTS summer meeting talk on assisted dying. Other themed issues will follow periodically, including long term consequences of childhood disease. Suggestions for more will be welcome.
Women on top?
Lung cancer incidence is rising; in a huge database study Sagerup et al show that it is rising more than threefold more rapidly in women than men, but despite this, women do better. They are diagnosed with less advanced disease, and even after correction for stage, age at diagnosis, time period of diagnosis, and histological subtype, men have a greater risk of excess deaths. Anyone who has seen a man suffering …
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