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The Hidden Challenge of Detecting Lung Cancer Early
Young, non-smoking patients are often diagnosed late because doctors and screening programmes continue to associate lung cancer primarily with older smokers. Rasika Bombatkar’s experience exposes the cost of that blind spot
Her experience, which she shared at the just-concluded World Cancer Congress in Hong Kong, illustrates a larger problem confronting efforts to detect lung cancer early: the people most likely to benefit from screening are not necessarily the only one... [6279 chars]
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