HINTS stands for Health Information National Trends Survey and its purpose is to collect cancer-related data nationwide (HINTS, 2007). The goal of HINTS is to evaluate how cancer-related information is accessed, how the risk of developing cancer is viewed by the public, how the course of communication has changed, and how health patterns have changed over the past few years. years (HINTS, 2007). Once data is collected, researchers are able to better understand how adults obtain health-related information. All of this information allows researchers to adapt, or fine-tune, their theories and offer superior suggestions that help reduce the burden of a cancer diagnosis (HINTS, 2007). HINTS receives survey information via mail and telephone. They use two systems called Random Dialing (RDD) and Computer Assisted Telephone Interview (CATI) to obtain their information (HINTS, 2007). The HINTS analysis method is a cross-sectional design. The population is represented at a national level and is obtained through stratified random sampling (HINTS, 2007). The research provided by the HINTS and SPSS codebook will provide the statistics needed to validate or refute each hypothesis. After searching for a search topic on the HINTS website, it was alarming to see how many people are still diagnosed and dying from pneumonia. cancer, so the expectation of this research assignment is to find more information about the prevalence of lung cancer and who is diagnosed with it. Lung cancer has often been considered the most preventable cancer causing deaths worldwide (Payne, 2001). Despite the ab...... half of the article ......erian GP (2003). Racial differences in lung cancer. Cancer and Metastasis Reviews, 22, 39-46. doi: 10.1023/A:1022207917249N. A. (2007). TIPS: National Health Information Trends Survey. Retrieved from: http://www. http://hints.cancer.gov/Default.aspxPayne, S. (2001). “Smoke like a man, die like a man”?: A review of the relationship between gender, sex, and lung cancer. Social sciences and medicine, 53, 1067-1080. doi:10.1016/S0277-9536(00)00402-0Underwood, J.M., Townsend, J.S., Tai, E., Davis, S.P., Stewart, S.L., White, A., . . . Fairley, T. L. (2012). Racial and regional disparities in lung cancer incidence. Cancer, 118, 1910-1918. doi: 10.1002/cncr.26479Zang, E. A., & Wynder, E. L. (1995). Differences in lung cancer risk between men and women: review of the evidence. Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 88, 183-192. doi:10.1093/jnci/88.3-4.183