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Women Lift Smokescreen on Lung Cancer

lung_animation99.gifLung cancer has become a woman’s issue. Eighty percent of the lifelong nonsmokers diagnosed with lung cancer are women, and the disease will kill twice as many women as breast cancer this year.

More than 60 percent of all new lung cancers are diagnosed in those who never smoked or who quit, sometimes decades ago. But many physicians seem unaware of that.

 

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