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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2006 98(10):664-665; doi:10.1093/jnci/djj219
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Attention Turns to Lung Cancer in Nonsmokers

Brian Vastag

The first 10% of the full text of this article appears below.

When Dana Reeve, the 43-year-old wife of Superman star Christopher Reeve, died of lung cancer in March, commentators often asked two questions: Why do nonsmokers, who make up 10%–15% of all lung cancer patients, develop the disease? And who exactly is at risk?

Some in the media chalked it up to bad luck—the same bad luck experienced by 17,000–26,000 American nonsmokers who get lung cancer each year. And in some sense they're right, as the etiology of most lung cancers in nonsmokers remains unknown.

"For nonsmokers, the risk factors are not very well understood," said Olga Gorlova, Ph.D., assistant professor of epidemiology at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.

The National Cancer Institute's Physician Data Query (PDQ) database . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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