Stat: A Growing Share Of Lung
Cancer Is Turning Up In Never-Smokers
Breast cancer wouldn’t have surprised her; being among the 1 in 8 women who
develop it over their lifetime isn’t statistically improbable. Neither would
have colorectal cancer; knowing the risk, Mandi Pike “definitely” planned to
have colonoscopies as she grew older. But when a PET scan in November 2019
revealed that Pike, a 33-year-old oil trader, wife, and mother of two in
Edmund, Okla., had lung cancer — she had been coughing and was initially
misdiagnosed with pneumonia — her first reaction was, “but I never smoked,” she
said. “It all seemed so surreal.” (Begley, 1/26)
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