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When Women with Lung Cancer Breathe Better than Men with Lung Cancer…

by Jane Chin, Ph.D. on May 15th, 2006

… clinicians may overlook lung cancer in women because they expected to see symptoms of lung obstruction as a possibility to lung cancer.

Given how lung cancer is now the leading cancer-related death in women, it’s important to help clinicians become aware that chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is not as tightly linked to lung cancer in women as it may be in men.

This means that women without these symptoms may be at risk for lung cancer as much as men with COPD symptoms may be.

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