The Golden State´s mixed record on lung cancer
(WorldNews Health)

It was a bewildering moment for Zach Jump, the American Lung Association´s national director of epidemiology and statistics. The numbers leaped off the computer screen and prompted an immediate question: How could California, a leader in reducing lung cancer cases, fall so short on early diagnosis and treatment of the disease? `It´s like you´d found the needle in the haystack of results,` Jump said. `I don´t know if anyone knew this was going to show up.` It was right there in the association´s annual `State of Lung Cancer` report, published in November: California had the third-lowest rate of new lung cancer cases in the country, a laudable achievement. But among state residents diagnosed...