Lung Cancer in Non-smokers Likely to Respond Differently to Treatment, Says Study

Lung cancer in non-smokers was found to be a biologically distinct disease from that in smokers, revealed new study. Scientists studied a population in Taiwan with high rates of lung cancer among non-smokers - and found a range of genetic changes which varied depending on a patient's age or sex. Many non-smokers with lung cancer had signs of DNA damage from environmental carcinogens, with young women in particular having particular genetic changes which are known to drive cancer to evolve aggressively....