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The Alarming Rise of Lung Cancer in Younger Nonsmoking Women
(Erin Keller/ Yahoo News) — Lung cancer is on the rise among young women, including many who have never smoked, according to health experts.
The disease remains the second most common cancer among both men and women in the United States. It has long been associated with older male smokers, Dr. Iona Baiu, a thoracic surgeon at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, told USA Today.
However, data shows that up to 20 percent of new lung cancer diagnoses now occur in people who have never smoked, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Baiu said the increase is particularly notable among women, who make up the majority of these non-smoker cases. (…)
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