A recent article highlights a concerning trend in the United States: young and middle-aged women are being diagnosed with lung cancer at higher rates than men.
“Lung cancer is clearly increasing in never-smokers,” said Dr. Helena Yu, a thoracic medical oncologist and early drug development specialist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
“So 20% of lung cancers that are diagnosed this year and more recently are in never-smokers – and that equates to like 40,000 cases a year,” she said. “Then 1 out of 5 people who die of lung cancer now are never-smokers, too. So we’re seeing an increased diagnosis but also a death rate that’s keeping up with that.”
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