HealthDay
What many don't realize is that lung cancer is the leading cancer killer of women, responsible for 27 percent of all cancer deaths, ahead of breast and colorectal cancer, according to the latest federal statistics. And women may be more susceptible to the disease than men, research suggests, a fact many women -- and their doctors -- may not realize.
"Lung cancer causes more deaths among women than breast, uterine and ovarian cancers combined, but I don't think this is on women's radar screens at all," said Dr. Jyoti Patel, an oncologist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, and a specialist in women's lung cancer.
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