WE’RE all well aware of the perils of smoking, with cigarettes responsible for seven out of 10 cases of lung cancer.
If you’ve never puffed on a cigarette, your odds of sidestepping the disease are altogether much stronger.
But it’s still possible to develop lung cancer even if you’ve sworn off tobacco.
In fact, up to 14 per cent of people with lung cancer in the UK have never smoked, according to Cancer Research UK.
“To put this into perspective, if lung cancer in people who have never smoked was a separate disease, it would be the eighth most prevalent cause of cancer-related death.”
In some ways, nonsmoker lung cancer might be considered a separate disease to smoking-related lung cancer, as it has unique molecular and biological characteristics and responds differently to …