HINTS is an acronym for Health Information National Trends Survey and its objective is to collect data related to cancer on a national scale (HINTS , 2007). The goal of HINTS is to assess how cancer-related information is accessible, how the risk of developing cancer is perceived by the public, how the course of communication has changed, and how health patterns have changed over time. of recent 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 adjust or refine their theories and offer superior suggestions that help reduce the burden imposed by a cancer diagnosis (HINTS, 2007). HINTS receives its survey information by 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 the national level and is obtained through stratified random sampling (HINTS, 2007). The research provided by the HINTS and SPSS codebook will provide the statistics necessary to validate or refute each hypothesis. After searching for a research topic on the HINTS website, it was alarming to see how many people are still diagnosed with and dying from lung disease. cancer, so the goal of this research mission 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 killer worldwide (Payne, 2001). Despite middle of paper......erian GP (2003). Racial differences in lung cancer. Cancer and Metastasis Reviews, 22, 39-46. doi:10.1023/A:1022207917249N. A. (2007). TIPS: Survey national trends in health information. Retrieved from: http://www. http://hints.cancer.gov/Default.aspxPayne, S. (2001). “Smoke like a man, die like a man”? : An examination of the relationship between gender, sex and lung cancer. Social Sciences and Medicine, 53, 1067-1080. doi:10.1016/S0277-9536(00)00402-0Underwood, JM, Townsend, JS, Tai, E., Davis, SP, Stewart, SL, White, A., . . . Fairley, T. L. (2012). Racial and regional disparities in lung cancer incidence. Cancer, 118, 1910-1918. doi:10.1002/cncr.26479Zang, EA and Wynder, EL (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