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Oh yes pretty sad and that's all the drs and researchers can say about it:
Campaigners for lung cancer research said they hoped Reeve's announcement would raise awareness and funding into anecdotal reports from doctors that it is affecting increasing numbers of nonsmoking, younger women.
Ten to 15 percent of lung cancer victims are nonsmokers and women in that group are twice as likely to get the disease than men who don't smoke. Radon gas, passive smoking, genetics and pollution are some of the causes among nonsmokers.
"I know of a woman who got it at 32, one at 33, at 38 years old. They are all never-smokers, runners, healthy as horse kind of people. There are a lot of factors that we simply don't know yet," said Regina Vidaver, executive director of the nonprofit group Women Against Lung Cancer.
Vidaver said lung cancer receives 10 times less funding per death than breast cancer in the United States yet it kills almost twice as many women as breast cancer.
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