Treating — and preventing — lung cancer
November 24th, 2008
Every year about 165,000 people in the United States die from lung cancer, and about 210,000 new cases are diagnosed each year. That means more people die from lung cancer annually than from breast, prostate and colon cancer combined, says Dr. Gavin Henry, chief of thoracic surgery at St. Agnes Hospital.
While most people are aware that smoking is a primary cause of lung cancer, about 10 percent – or about 2,100 cases – of new lung cancers occurs in nonsmokers.