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<\/a>Article from winter 2014 issue<\/p><\/div>\n
By 2007, the pain was more prevalent, reaching along her back and shoulder blades. Dunn Haney says she worried that the pain could mean something serious, but nothing in her history or tests pointed toward cancer. \u201cI thought, \u2018This is making me nuts. We\u2019ve got to do something,\u2019\u201d says Dunn Haney, now 46. Finally, a CT scan concerned her doctors. She saw a specialist who did a PET scan, an imaging test that detects spots with metabolic activity, such as when tumors are growing. Although many spots lit up, the specialist said he didn\u2019t think it was cancer. To be certain, Dunn Haney underwent a biopsy on a lymph node under her collarbone. The biopsy result: positive for non-small cell lung cancer.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were really shocked,\u201d Dunn Haney says. She had no risk factors commonly associated with lung cancer. She\u2019d never smoked; she was young; she had no family history. Even though smoking accounts for up to 90 percent of lung cancers in the United States, 16,000 to 24,000 nonsmokers die every year from lung cancer. In addition to tobacco-related lung cancer, environmental exposures such as radon, secondhand smoke, and asbestos increase the risk for lung cancer. \u201cMembers of a family live in the same home and eat the same diet,\u201d says Simon Spivack, chief of the division of pulmonary medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center in Bronx, New York. \u201cThey might be exposed to dad\u2019s cigarette smoke.\u201d<\/p>\n
Read the full article at Genome Magazine \u00bb<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n
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