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Article: Lung Cancer in Non-Smokers Is Sixth Biggest Cancer Killer
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- September 15, 2008
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To: HEALTH EDITORS
Contact: Kay Cofrancesco, Lung Cancer Alliance, +1-202-463-2080,
kay@lungcanceralliance.org
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- While lung cancer in smokers
and former smokers is the biggest cancer killer by far, lung cancer
in people who have never smoked is -- by itself -- the sixth biggest
cancer killer in the United States.
"Most people are not aware that lung cancer among non-smokers has
such an enormous impact," said Lung Cancer Alliance President Laurie
Fenton-Ambrose today. The heavy burden of lung cancer in non-
smokers contradicts the common belief that lung cancer is a disease
that strikes only smokers.
Whether non-smokers are being diagnosed with lung ...