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Article: The deadliest cancer women face now: what you must know--whether you smoke or not: women who don't smoke are twice as likely to get lung cancer as nonsmoking men. the really scary part? Research on this "guilty" disease is still woefully underfunded, so help is not on the way. Here, why you're more vulnerable, plus how you can protect your health.(cancer report)
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- Redbook
- Article date:
- July 1, 2006
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"you have lung cancer."
Oncologist Harvey Pass, M.D., always dreads saying those four words. But breaking the news to one particular patient recently was especially difficult. "This was a female lawyer in her early 40s who had never smoked a cigarette in her life: Her parents were smokers and she had vowed to steer clear of the habit," recalls Pass, chief of thoracic oncology at the New York University School of Medicine and Cancer Center. His patient was stunned. "She just couldn't understand why this was happening to her."
Fact is, lung cancer kills more women than breast, ovarian, and uterine cancers combined--some 72,130 women in the U.S. will die of ...