Jump to full article: Gainesville (FL) Sun, 2010-03-10
Author: Joe Caridi Special to The Sun
Intro: I want to thank you for your article about Caren Gorenberg and her struggle with lung cancer as a non-smoker. Caren's fight is one that I am very familiar with as my wife of 10 years, Dianne, is an 18-month survivor of lung cancer.
She is only 40 years old and is a life-long non-smoker. Dianne and I have learned much about lung cancer in the last year and a half and have been surprised as many of your readers were to learn that lung cancer hits non-smokers as well a life-long smokers in devastating numbers.
In fact, if lung cancer in never-smokers were classified as its own disease, it would rank as the 6th deadliest cancer in the U.S.
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I believe that the biggest problem facing lung cancer patients today is that most people believe that it is still a smoker's disease. And smokers somehow deserve to get cancer.
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