A growing number of young non-smokers are being diagnosed with lung cancer, as seen in a 31-year-old woman from Ghaziabad.
The typical patient diagnosed with lung cancer—an older male smoker—is becoming less common, according to experts.
For decades, lung cancer was associated mostly with men and heavy smokers. Now doctors are seeing more cases in women and people who’ve never smoked cigarettes. Madeleine Brand Host, 'Press Play' ...
On National Cancer Awareness Day, know how early diagnosis is the only way to battle lung cancer in India’s polluted cities ...
Perceptions about lung cancer have long been shaped by the prevalence of smoking as a heavy predictor of disease, but doctors have grown increasingly concerned about a growing number of cancer cases ...
After decades of qualms about lung cancer screening, the American Cancer Society says there now is enough evidence to recommend it, but only for current and former heavy smokers ages 55 to 74 and ...
Recent studies reveal that smoking affects women differently, and often more severely than men. We spoke to an expert to ...
In the battle over the connection between cigarettes and lung cancer, one of the chief arguments on the negative side has been put as a question: Why don’t as many women get lung cancer as men? The ...
DEAR ABBY: My mother-in-law is a heavy smoker. She lives two hours away from us, so when she visits, she likes to stay for one or two nights. My husband and I have a 3-year-old son, and my MIL’s ...
Smoking can have a serious impact on the effect of the treatment of periodontitis – a widespread condition that leads to degradation of the teeth's supportive tissue and, in serious cases, to loss of ...