more lung cancers for non smokers found

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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/heal ... 86681.html

Lung cancer is on the rise among people who have never smoked because of increasing exposure to toxic air, but doctors – and politicians – are unaware of the problem’s scale, experts warn.

In the UK 6,000 people a year die of lung cancer despite having never smoked, or having smoked a negligible number of cigarettes (fewer than 100 in their lifetime), a study has found.

This makes lung cancer among non-smokers alone the eight biggest cancer-related cause of death in the country, ahead of leukaemia, lymphoma and cervical cancer.

But medical experts say the much stronger association with smoking has created stigma around the disease, disadvantaging those who don’t smoke and curtailing research into other causes.

“For too long, having lung cancer has only been thought of as a smoking related disease,” said Professor Paul Cosford, director of health protection at Public Health England (PHE) and lead author of the research that appeared in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine.

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