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Lung cancer is little caused by secondhand smoke: ‘It’s bad luck’

Two million people are diagnosed with lung cancer every year. Not all of them have smoked. Some have never even touched a cigarette. Lung cancer is often the result of accidental mutations.

This is apparent from new epidemiological research by American oncologists.

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The specialists examined more than two hundred never-smokers with lung cancer. They went in search of specific mutations that could reveal the process underlying the disastrous cell proliferation.

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