Lung cancer in 'Never-smokers': molecular factors trump risk factors.

摘要: While they represent a minority of patients with lung cancer, more than 20,000 people in the United States who never smoked cigarettes are diagnosed cancer each year.[1] This makes “never-smokers” one 10 most common cancers—more ovarian cancer. In this issue ONCOLOGY, Subramanian and Govindan give an overview emerging data about never-smokers.[2] The outlined review provide support for hypothesis that we can define collection diseases affecting never-smokers not by absence risk factor (smoking) but tumor’s molecular features.