Top 50 Cancer Hospitals in the USA

1. Memorial Sloan - Kettering Cancer Center, New York
2. University of Texas, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston
3. Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore
4. Dana - Farber Cancer Institute, Boston
5. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.
6. Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C.
7. University of Chicago Hospitals
8. UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles
9. University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor
10. University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
11. University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle
12. Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
13. H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa
14. Cleveland Clinic
15. Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia
16. University of California, San Francisco Medical Center
17. Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Stanford, Calif.
18. University Hospitals of Cleveland
19. Barnes - Jewish Hospital/Washington University, St. Louis
20. Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville
21. University Medical Center, Tucson, Ariz.
22. University of Alabama Hospital at Birmingham
23. University of Minnesota Medical Center, Minneapolis
24. Yale - New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Conn.
25. University of Colorado Hospital, Denver
26. New York - Presbyterian Univ. Hosp. of Columbia and Cornell
27. Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
28. University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Madison
29. Ohio State University James Cancer Hospital, Columbus
30. University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics, Salt Lake City
31. Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston
32. University of Virginia Medical Center, Charlottesville
33. NYU Medical Center, New York
34. Rush University Medical Center, Chicago
35. Inova Fairfax Hospital, Falls Church, Va.
36. Wake Forest Univ. Baptist Medical Center, Winston - Salem, N.C.
37. University of North Carolina Hospitals, Chapel Hill
38. Harper University Hospital, Detroit
39. University of California, San Diego Medical Center
40. Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo
41. Sarasota Memorial Hospital, Fla.
42. Dartmouth - Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, N.H.
43. City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, Calif.
44. Clarian Health Partners (IU and Methodist Hospitals), Indianapolis
45. F.G. McGaw Hospital at Loyola University, Maywood, Ill.
46. Greater Baltimore Medical Center
47. Baptist St. Anthony's Health System, Amarillo, Texas
48. Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit
49. William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, Mich.
50. Riverside Methodist Hospital - Ohio Health, Columbus

Lung cancer in women

Lung cancer strikes 900,000 men and 330,000 women yearly. Among men, smoking causes more than 80 per cent of lung cancer cases. In women, smoking is the cause of 45 per cent of all lung cancer worldwide, but more than 70 per cent in North America and Northern Europe. In both men and women, the incidence of lung cancer is low before age 40, and increases up to age 70 or 75.

The rise in female smoking prevalence is a major public health concern. In the US, more women die from smoking-induced lung cancer than from breast cancer and in some Nordic countries, including Iceland and Denmark, female lung cancer deaths have begun to outnumber male tobacco victims. Considering that in several European countries up to 50 per cent of young women are now regular smokers, this will cause a disease burden that significantly reduces women’s health in decades to come.