No risk factors, but they got cancer anyway
April 1st, 2008
Dr. Schiller estimates that about 200,000 people in the U.S. are diagnosed with lung cancer each year, of which about 15 percent of the cases are not smoking-related.
“If someone, regardless if they’re a smoker or not, comes down with a chronic cough that doesn’t seem to go away even with some type of antibiotic treatment, I would really push for an X-ray or a CT scan,” says Dr. Schiller.