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“The doctors are very optimistic as it is stage one and contained to my left lung,” Griffin, 60, shared in a statement on social media.
But the comedian noted in her announcement that she was diagnosed with the disease “even though I’ve never smoked.”
Experts warn that people who do not smoke cigarettes or other tobacco products are at risk of developing lung cancer. In fact, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as many as 40,000 lung cancers each year happen in people who never smoked or smoked fewer than 100 cigarettes in their lifetime.
If you re a nonsmoker, here’s what you need to know about lung cancer risks:
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Robert Berry Gallery announces its new virtual exhibition Tales of Adjusted Desire
David Carbone, Orphic Agon.
NEW YORK, NY
.-Robert Berry Gallery, a premier New York City-based art gallery dedicated to innovative contemporary art, announced its new virtual exhibition Tales of Adjusted Desire curated by Robert Curcio of curcioprojects featuring David Carbone, Bobbie Moline-Kramer, Kaoruko, and Terry Rodgers. The exhibit runs until May 9, 2021.
All the artists in Tales of Adjusted Desire are influenced by the world at large of mediated images mingling with a social media aesthetic creating a subtle anxiety that crosses boundaries. Each of the 12 works whether painting, prints, or mixed media are insights into a self that goes beyond any moral standards or historical margins for an adjusted desire. The come hither, lets have it all promises of images and social worlds we live in and our complex personal interior life together form a disorienting adjusted presence.
New guidelines more than double the number of Americans eligible for lung cancer screening, but experts say it s not enough Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY
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The task force made two significant changes to its lung cancer screening: Annual screenings will begin at age 50, instead of 55, and smoking intensity has been reduced from 30 to 20 pack-year history. This means patients will be eligible if they, for example, smoked one pack a day for 20 years or two packs a day for 10 years.
“There’s a huge need to diagnosing patients early,” said Dr. David Carbone, an oncologist and lung cancer specialist at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, who is unaffiliated with the editorial. “When you don’t do screening exams, most lung cancer patients are diagnosed when they re incurable.”
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