Lung cancer "is not being successfully treated" in women, as a Feb. 23 Wall Street Journal editorial stated, and the number of deaths from the disease in women "is increasing in epidemic proportions," Laurie Fenton, president of the Lung Cancer Alliance, writes in a letter to the editor of the Journal. Fenton writes that lung cancer will kill almost twice as many women as breast cancer and that an increasing number of younger women who have never smoked are being diagnosed with the disease (Fenton, Wall Street Journal, 3/9).

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