Lung Cancer Risk Stable for Nonsmokers

Lung cancer risk among people who don’t smoke has stayed the same since the 1930s. And of the nonsmokers who get this disease, men are more likely to die. Those are among the findings of a large international study. It included information from nearly 2 million people around the world. Men who had never smoked had a 1.1% percent risk of lung cancer death. The risk was 0.8% for women. HealthDay News wrote about the study September 9. It was published in the journal PLoS Medicine.