Ang Fi Ed Milling. Global Epidemiology of Lung Cancer. 1/22/2019· Industrialized Countries. In the US, the incidence of lung cancer in men peaked in the 1980s, followed by a subsequent decline, with similar patterns in women following 20 years later [].Thun et al. found that in the 1960s, the relative risk of lung cancer death in smokers versus non-smokers was more than four times higher in ...