Lung cancer is a women’s health disease, but we clearly need to educate more people about it,” said Dr. Andrea McKee, a radiation oncologist and volunteer medical spokesperson for the American ...

After a car accident in 2016, a 34 non-smoker was diagnosed with lung cancer, which is increasing in women under 65 says the American Cancer Society. Yovana Portillo felt stunned that she had lung ...

Women, and particularly women of color, are less likely to be offered tests for lung cancer, she said. “I have women that have come with chest pressure and leave the office with Xanax,” she said.

Lung cancer ‘clearly’ climbing in nonsmokers Research suggests that lung cancer diagnoses have risen 84% among women in the US over the past 42 years while dropping 36% in men. Women who have ...

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 ...

In the U.S., women make up about two-thirds of lung cancer cases in never-smokers, says Alice Berger, PhD, a laboratory researcher at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.

According to a California study, lung cancer rates are dropping for every group except nonsmoking Asian American women — for whom they’re actually increasing by 2% per year.. While lung cancer ...

Lung Cancer Rates Among Women Are Falling Much Slower Than Those in Men. Here’s Why. 4 minute read. Illustration by Lon Tweeten for TIME. By Jamie Ducharme. November 7, 2019 6:05 AM EST.

Lung cancer is much more prevalent in men than women, yet is still not being looked at as a women's health issue, Andrea Wolf says. Lung cancer among women who never smoked is twice as common than in ...

The rates of lung cancer among younger white and Hispanic women have surpassed those of men — and this change cannot be fully explained by gender differences in smoking behavior, researchers ...