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A growing share of lung cancer is turning up in never-smokers


Jan. 26, 2021Reprints
Mandi Pike near her home in Edmond, Okla. Pike, a never-smoker, was diagnosed with lung cancer in November 2019.
Nick Oxford for STAT
Sharon Begley died of complications of lung cancer on Jan. 16, just five days after completing this article. She was a never-smoker.
Breast cancer wouldn’t have surprised her; being among the 1 in 8 women who develop it over their lifetime isn’t statistically improbable. Neither would have colorectal cancer; knowing the risk, Mandi Pike “definitely” planned to have colonoscopies as she grew older.
But when a PET scan in November 2019 revealed that Pike, a 33-year-old oil trader, wife, and mother of two in Edmond, Okla., had lung cancer she had been coughing and was initially misdiagnosed with pneumonia her first reaction was, “but I never smoked,” she said. “It all seemed so surreal.” ....

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