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What ethnicity has the highest incidence of lung cancer?

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What ethnicity has the highest incidence of lung cancer?

Jay M. Lee (Surgical Director, Thoracic Oncology Program, UCLA) gives expert video advice on: What ethnicity has the highest incidence of lung cancer?; Can non-smokers get lung cancer?; Is the mortality rate high for those diagnosed with lung cancer? and more...

According to the Centres for Disease Control in the NCI, there's a higher incidence of lung cancer among African American males relative to Caucasian males, and that increased incidence is over 50%. In women, there are really no differences in the incidence between the African Americans and Caucasians.

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