Researchers and doctors have been left baffled after a recent study found more than 50% of Asian women diagnosed with lung cancer have never smoked.
“Oncogene is basically a gene in the cell that switches on and the cell becomes cancerous,” he said. “A lot of the oncogene cancer is seen in nonsmokers. Characteristically early on when it was described it was described in Asian women. It kinda opened a whole new field of medicine and research in lung cancer.”
Dr. Thawani said it’s unclear what’s triggering the gene mutation and why Asian women are seeing a higher risk. Researchers at the University of California at San Francisco are trying to figure out the cause and recently received a $12 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to lead the first long term study among Asian Americans.
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