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I’m a doctor — female nonsmokers get lung cancer more than men, look out for these troubling signs

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I’m a doctor — female nonsmokers get lung cancer more than men, look out for these troubling signs

November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month — an estimated 235,000 new cases of lung cancer and 125,000 deaths are expected to occur this year in the US. Dr. Daniel Sterman, the division director for pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine at NYU Langone Health and NYU Grossman School of Medicine, talked with us about the … Read more

Air pollution ‘wakes up’ cancer cells in non-smokers’ lungs: study

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Air pollution ‘wakes up’ cancer cells in non-smokers’ lungs: study

This isn’t exactly a breath of fresh air. Air pollution can cause lung cancer without mutating cells, a new study found. Published Wednesday in the journal Nature, the study analyzed the presence of lung cancer in non-smokers, using mice as test subjects. The researchers found that, instead of causing mutations, the exposure to pollution resulted … Read more